This paper puts the focus on Ovid, Fasti III, 523-542, the lines which precede the long narrative
development devoted to the Ides of March. It is shown that even in these lines, as well as in the etiologicaletymological
story that follows on the figure of Anna Perenna, the Virgilian model insinuates itself at several
points: a very famous passage of the Georgics (vv. 158-165) and an equally famous piece from the first book
of the Aeneid (vv. 421-437), in which Virgil takes and re-functionalizes the lines dedicated to the work of the
bees in the context of the foundation of Carthage.
