is now in progress through the year, and the second half of 4.11 substitutes the corresponding part of 1.7 annalibus eruta priscis for the reference in 1.1 to the Latin calendar year. Thus 4.11–12 repeats the opening couplet of book 1, indicating the contents of the Fasti, with two changes: the future canam of 1.2 has become present cano, since O. The eighteen lines of proem to the fourth book of the Fasti, which opens the second quarter of the year (or second half of O.'s sixmonth poem), are designed to recall but mark with significant differences both the proem of book 1, composed to introduce the whole year, and the proem of the preceding month of March, addressed to Venus' consort, Mars, joint ancestor of Romulus and protector of his people.
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