=65-66. MARTIA ... ROMA.= The same phrase at _Tr_ III vii 52 and _EP_ I viii 24; compare as well _Aen_ I 276-77 'Romulus ... Mauortia condet / moenia'. Mars, father of Romulus and Remus, was peculiarly the god of Rome: compare _Fast_ I 39-40 & III 85-86 'Mars Latio uenerandus erat, quia praesidet armis: / arma ferae genti remque decusque dabant'. The reference to Mars is very apt in view of the primarily military nature of the republican consul's office. =67. MVLTIPLICAT TAMEN HVNC GRAVITAS AVCTORIS HONOREM.= Flaccus had been nominated for the consulship by Tiberius. For language and sentiment compare _Met_ VIII 430 'illi laetitiae est cum munere muneris _auctor_'. =67. GRAVITAS= is linked with Hercules at _Met_ IX 270, with Jupiter at _Met_ I 207 (considered suspect by Merkel) and II 847, with all the Olympian gods at _Met_ VI 73, and with Augustus at _Tr_ II 512. Underneath the ostensible connection to Jupiter at _Met_ II 846-47 'non bene conueniunt nec in una sede morantur / maiestas et amor' Professor R. J. Tarrant sees an allusion to Augustus. =69-70. IVDICIIS IGITVR LICEAT FLACCOQVE TIBIQVE / TALIBVS AVGVSTI TEMPVS IN OMNE FRVI.= Compare _EP_ II vi 17-18 (to Graecinus) 'quodque soles animo _semper_, quod uoce precari, / omnia Caesaribus sic _tua facta probes_'. =70. AVGVSTI= = _Tiberii_; his name in inscriptions is TI·CAESAR·AVG (Sandys 235). =71. CVM= _FILT_ QVOD _BC_ VT _MH_ QVVM _Weise_. The archetype was illegible at this point, and the manuscripts offer various supplements. Of these _cum_ seems the most appropriate. Ehwald favoured _quod_ (_KB_ 48), but all except one of the passages he cited are instances of _quod superest_ or _quod reliquum est_. The one relevant passage he cited was _Fast_ II 17-18 (to Augustus) 'ergo ades et placido paulum mea munera uultu / respice, pacando _si quid_ ab hoste _uacat_'. Many manuscripts however offer _uacas_ (for which compare Prop II xxxii 7 'quodcumque uacabis'), and the corruption to the third person seems an easy one. _Vacare_ in general does not seem to occur with an expressed impersonal subject. =71. CVRA PROPIORE.= The same phrase at _Met_ XIII 578-79 '_cura_ deam _propior_ luctusque domesticus angit / Memnonis amissi'.