Reading notes

• The Aeneid §1.177 Ceres

  Goddess of grain and agriculture, honoured with Bacchus in the yearly vows of Eclogue 5.

• The Aeneid §4.58 Ceres

  Goddess of grain and law (legifera); honoured first among the marriage-sacrifices.

• The Aeneid §6.484 Ceres

  Goddess of grain; Polyphoetes was her priest.

• The Aeneid §8.181 Ceres

  Goddess of grain; her 'gifts' are bread at the feast.

• The Eclogues §5.79 Ceres

  Goddess of grain and agriculture, honoured with Bacchus in the yearly vows of Eclogue 5.

• The Georgics §1.7 Ceres

  Goddess of grain and the harvest, credited with first teaching men to plough; her yearly spring rites open the farming year.