thus mingled, it is true, were not unknown to the Grecians, who called them #pankarpon thysian#, a sacrifice of all sorts of fruits; and #panpermian#, when they offered all kinds of grain. Virgil has mentioned these sacrifices in his "Georgics:" _Lancibus et pandis fumantia reddimus exta_: and in another place, _lancesque et liba feremus_: that is, We offer the smoaking entrails in great platters, and we will offer the chargers and the cakes. The word _satura_ has been afterwards applied to many other sort of mixtures; as Festus calls it a kind of _olla_, or hotchpotch, made of several sorts of meats. Laws were also called _leges saturæ_, when they were of several heads and titles, like our tacked bills of parliament: and _per saturam legem ferre_, in the Roman senate, was to carry a law without telling the senators, or counting voices, when they were in haste. Sallust uses the word,--_per saturam sententias exquirere_; when the majority was visible on one side. From hence it may probably be conjectured, that the Discourses, or Satires, of Ennius, Lucilius, and Horace, as we now call them, took their name; because they are full of various matters, and are also written on various subjects, as Porphyrius says. But Dacier affirms, that it is not immediately from thence that these satires are so called; for that name had been used formerly for other things, which bore a nearer resemblance to those discourses of Horace. In explaining of which, continues Dacier, a method is to be pursued, of which Casaubon himself has never thought, and which will put all things into so clear a light, that no farther room will be left for the least dispute.