entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note ENT_ROM_APOLLO,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Beard, North, Price, Religions of Rome." ENT_ROM_APOLLO,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation,"DND 2.68 (Apollo = sun in Stoic allegory; the ""many-named"" Apollo); 3.57-59. Extensive philosophical treatment." ENT_ROM_APOLLO,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti 3.881 (Agonalia): Apollo referenced in the Roman calendar; the Ludi Apollinares (July, outside the surviving six books); Ovid treats Apollo as the preserver of the Roman state who deflected plague; his role in the Julian-Augustan ideology" ENT_ROM_APOLLO,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries." ENT_ROM_APOLLO,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation,Apollo appears at Aeneid 3.73-98 (oracle at Delos); 6.9-12 (Cumae/Sibyl); 9.638-663 (Apollo commends Ascanius in battle). The Aeneid reflects Augustus's special patronage of Apollo.