[Linenotes: 1. +Qui+ = Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome. 4-5. +quippe ... animos+ = _since_ (he thought that) _men’s tempers were made savage_ (brutalised) _by warfare_. +efferari+ = orat. obl. part of Numa’s thoughts. 6. +desuetudine+ = _by disuse_, i.e. by a cessation from the use of. Cf. _de-docēre_ = _unteach_. +Ianum ... Argiletum+ = (a temple of) Janus at the foot of the Argiletum, a slope to the N.E. of the Forum. (Prob. = the clayey ground, from _argilla_ = white clay.) 8. +clausus.+ It was closed for a short time, circ. 238 B.C., and again by Augustus 29-25 B.C.] B. Sunt geminae Belli portae, sic nomine dicunt, Religione sacrae et saevi formidine Martis: Centum aerei claudunt vectes aeternaque ferri Robora, nec custos absistit limine Ianus. 610 Has, ubi certa sedet patribus sententia pugnae, Ipse Quirinali trabea cinctuque Gabino Insignis reserat stridentia limina Consul; Ipse vocat pugnas; sequitur tum cetera pubes, Aereaque adsensu conspirant cornua rauco. VERGIL, _Aen._ vii. 607-615. [Linenotes: 609. +vectes+ = _bolts or bars_, prob. from √veh = carry. Cf. _vect-īgal_. 612. +Quir. trabea+ = _in the state robe of Romulus_, i.e. the striped robe of state, purple, with white stripes across. +cinctu Gabino+ = _with the Gabine girdle_, formed by girding the toga tight round the body by one of its loose ends. 613. +reserat+ = _un-bars_. For _sĕro_ = _join_, cf. our _series_.] +Parallel Passages.+ Ovid, _F._ i. 115-132. Cf. Hor. _Od._ iv. 15. 9. Verg. _Aen._ i. 293-4. +Numa Pompilius.+ ‘The name of Numa is significant, and denotes an organiser or _lawgiver_. (For _Numa_ cf. +numerus+, +nummus+, νόμος.) As Romulus was the founder of the State and of political and military order, so the legend regards Numa as the founder of the national religion.’ --Ihne. D4 TARQUINIUS SUPERBUS, 534-509 B.C. _The Purchase of the Sibylline Books._