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PERVIGILIUMI VENERIS

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 281 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PER-PIG
PERVIGILIUMI VENERIS , the Vigil of
Venus
 , a short Latin poem. The author, date, and place of composition are unknown. The poem probably belongs to the 2nd or 3rd century A.D. An article signed L. Raquettius in the Classical
Review
  (May 1905) assigns it to Sidonius Apollinaris (5th cent.) It was written professedly in early
spring
  on the eve of a three-nights' festival of
Venus
  (probably April 1-3). It describes in poetical language the annual awakening of the vegetable and animal world through the goddess. It consists of ninety-three verses in trochaic septenarii, and is divided into strophes of unequal length by the refrain:
Cras amet qui nunquam amavit; quique amavit eras amet." Pervigilium was the
term
  for a nocturnal festival in honour of some divinity, especially Bona Dea.
Editio princeps (1577) ; modern editions by F. Bucheler (1859), A. Riese, in Anthologia
latina
  (1869), E. Behrens in Unedierte lateinische Gedichte (1877); S. G. Owen (with Catullus, 1893). There are translations into English verse by
Thomas
 
Stanley
  (1651) and
Thomas
  Parnell, author of The Hermit; on the text see J. W. Mackail in
Journal
  of Philology (1888), vol. xvii.


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