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Ib. 511 sq.
lapsuramque domum subeas, ut sanguis Aleuae,
Stella Leoprepidae cum fuit aequa uiro.
1 Ovid knows too much astrology for his editors, and this phrase is misinterpreted by Heinsius and Nemethy and not interpreted at all by any other commentator whom I have read. It means ‘Venus is now favourably situate in a sign of her own’, that is in one or other of the two signs Taurus and Libra, which are the houses (, domus, domicilia) of the planet Venus.