65 Orgival, _Considerat. sur l’Origine et Progrés des Belles Lettres chez les Romains_. _ 66 Comment. de Erudit. Societat._ 67 Romulus ut saxo locum circumdedit alto, Cuilibet huc, inquit, confuge tutus erit. 68 Plautus, _Captivi Prol._ _ 69 Antiquitat. Roman._ Lib. II. 70 Livy. Lib. VII. c. 2. Sine carmine ullo, sine imitandorum carminum actu, ludiones ex Etruria acciti, ad tibicinis modos saltantes, haud indecoros motus more Tusco dabant. 71 Flogel, _Geschichte der Komisch. Litteratur_. Tom. IV. p. 82. 72 Dionys. Halic. Lib. II. c. 34. 73 Livy, Lib. III. c. 29. Epulantesque, cum carmine triumphali et solennibus jocis, commissantium modo, currum secuti sunt. 74 Ibid. Lib. IV. c. 20. In eum milites carmina incondita, æquantes eum Romulo, canere. 75 Ibid. Lib. XXVIII. c. 9. _ 76 Tusc. Disput._ Lib. I. c. 2. and lib. IV. c. 2. _Brutus_, c. 19. 77 Lib. II. c. 1. _ 78 De Vita Populi Romani_, ap. Nonium, c. ii. sub voce, Assa. 79 Majores natu in conviviis ad tibias egregia superiorum opera, carmine comprehensa, pangebant. 80 Cicero, _Brutus_, c. 19. The passage rather seems to imply that they had been in writing, “Utinam _extarent illa carmina_, quæ multis sæculis ante suam ætatem in epulis esse cantata a singulis convivis de clarorum virorum laudibus, in Originibus scriptum reliquit Cato”! _ 81 Lectures on Literature_, Lect. III. _ 82 Romische Geschichte_. Berlin, 1811. 2 Tom. 8vo. 83 Lib. IV. c. 2. 84 Lib. III. c. 22. 85 Bossi, _Storia de Italia_, Tom. VI. p. 375. _ 86 Elementa Doctrinæ Metricæ_, Lib. III. c. 9. Lanzi, (_Saggio di Ling. Etrusc._) Schoell, (_Hist. Abregée de la Litterature Romaine_, Tom. I. p. 42. introduct.) and Eustace (_Classical Tour in Italy_, Vol. III. p. 416.) give a somewhat different interpretation. Pleores, they render flores, and not plures, in which they seem right—Satur, fufere Mars, (you shall be full, O Mars!) they make Ator, or ador fieri, Mars, (Let there be food, O Mars!) which is evidently erroneous. The following will give some general notion of the import of the verses:— Ye Lares, aid us! Mars, thou God of Might! From murrain shield the flocks—the flowers from blight. For thee, O Mars! a feast shall be prepared; Salt, and a wether chosen from the herd: Invite, by turn, each Demigod of Spring— Great Mars, assist us! Triumph! Triumph sing! 87 Varro, _De Ling. Lat._ Lib. VI. c. 1 and 3. 88 Servius _ad Æneid._ Lib. VIII. 89 Cannegieter, _Dissert. Philol. Jurid. ad legem Numæ_. 90 Funccius, _De Pueritia Latin. Ling._ c. III. § 6 and 8. 91 Lib. XLII. c. 20 92 The letters which have been supplied are here printed in Italics.