Note 45 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS
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aris | frigidus excutitur cinis: Of course to make room for new sacrifices, but frigidus intimates that the ashes had had time to cool; such occasions were rare. Comp. Apul., Met., 4, 83: arae viduae frigido cinere foedatae. Aris, Dat. Excutitur denotes haste. ‘The ashes are hustled off.’—postibus: ‘for the door-posts’ (of temples, palaces, the residence of the triumphator, and other buildings). With the Dative comp. Juv., 6, 51: necte coronam | postibus.