Note 606 — Chapter XV · CATULLUS.
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Cf. Plaut. Pseud. 147:—
'Neque Alexandrina beluata conchyliata tapetia.'
Mr. Ellis, in his Commentary on Catullus, p. 226, mentions that both the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, and the legend of Ariadne, were common subjects of ancient art. He points out also that the idea of the quilt on which the Ariadne story was represented was borrowed from Apollonius, i. 730-06.