Note JC — 1820 (continued 3)
Reading edition
"Compare Virgil, Æneid vi. 785—
Qualis Berecyntia mater Invehitur curru Phrygias turrita per urbes.
The Great Mother is represented in works of art as wearing a crown of towers. An explanation is given in Ovid's Fasti (iv. 219), a work which Wordsworth seems to have had in his thoughts throughout this stanza.
At cur turrifera caput est onerata corona? An primis turres urbibus illa dedit?" (W. A. Heard.)