Note 101 — TO PYRRHA. BOOK THE FIRST, ODE THE FIFTH.
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l. 7. Neptune’s fane—Horace alludes to the custom of the Roman mariners after a shipwreck—that of suspending their garments, which had been drenched in the storm, in the temple of Neptune, together with a votive tablet, on which the circumstances of the danger and escape, were painted.