1-2 cf. Hor. carm. 1,2,1-4, Iam satis terris nivis atque dirae / grandinis misit pater et rubente / dextera sacras iaculatus arcis / terruit urbem

3-4 cf. Pontano, Urania sive de stellis 4,1080, Quaeque soporiferis vehitur dea Cynthia bigis

6-7 cf. Suet. Galba 18,1, urbem quoque et deinde Palatium ingressum excepit terrae tremor et assimilis quidam mugitui sonus

10-11 vitreis… sedibus: cf. Sil. 7,413

14-15 Verg. georg. 1,330-331, et mortalia corda / per gentes humilis stravit pavor

33 Ov. trist. 1,2,29, nunc gelidus sicca Boreas bacchatur ab Arcto

38 cf. Verg. Aen. 3,176-177, tendoque supinas / ad caelum cum voce manus; Hor. carm. 3,23,1, caelo supinas si tuleris manus

39 te fatigamus prece: cf. Hor. carm. 1,2,26

39-40 cf. Stat. silv. 3,3,138, illum et qui nutu superas nunc temperat arces

41-42 cf. Gen. 13,16 (Vulgata), faciamque semen tuum sicut pulverem terrae

41-44 cf. Is 40,12 (Vulgata): quis adpendit tribus digitis molem terrae, et libravit in pondere montes, et colles in statera?

45 cf. Sen. Med. 595, parcite, o divi, veniam precamur

49-51 cf. Ps. 129,3 (Vulgata), si iniquitates observaveris, Domine, Domine, quis sustinebit?

51-52 cf. Hor. carm. 1,2,29-30, cui dabit partis scelus expiandi / Iuppiter?

54-56 cf. Jn 1,29 (Vulgata), ecce agnus Dei, ecce qui tollit peccatum mundi

57 stringe ferrum: cf. Prud. perist. 14,65

62-63 damus… / vela: cf. Verg. Aen. 3,191; Ov. trist. 5,14,44

63-64 cf. Ov. met. 3,631, aque mero redeant in pectora sensus

65 nube… occupamus: cf. Hor. carm. 3,29,44

68 lampade solis: cf. Sil. 6,157; 7,143

69 vitiis iniquos: cf. Hor. carm. 1,2,47

76-80 cf. Hor. carm. 2,13,30-32, sed magis / pugnas et exactos tyrannos / densum umeris bibit aure vulgus

89-92 cf. Lc 19,1-10

90-91 cf. Hor. carm. 4,2,1, Pindarum quisquis studet aemulari

102-103 triumpho / … invectos: cf. Verg. Aen. 8,714