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Dixerat ; Heratkd bicolor cum popukis umbra 

 Velavitque comas, foliifque innexa pependit: 

 Et facer implevit dextram fcyphus. Ociùs omnes 

 In menfam lasti libant, divofqiie precantur. 



Devexo interea proprior fit vefper Olympo : 

 Jamque facerdotes, primufque Pothius, ibant. 

 Pellibus in morem cincli, flammafque ferebant. 

 Inftaurant epulas, et menfae grata fecundse 

 Dona ferunt : cumulantque oneratis lancibus aras. 

 Turn Salii ad cantus, incenfa altaria circum, 

 Populeis adfunt evindi tempora ramis. 



iENEiD. B. viii. L. 268—286. 



'* From that period this facred feftival has been 

 '* celebrated, and exulting poflerity hails the re- 



Invoke our common God with hymns divine. 

 And from the goblet pour the generous wine. 

 He faid, and with the poplar's facred boughs, 

 J^ike great Aïeules^ binds his hoary brows ; 

 Rais'd the crown'd goblet high, in open view ; 

 With him, the guefts the holy rite purfue, 

 And on the boaril the rich hbation threw. 



Now from before the rifing fliades of night, 

 RoU'd down the fteep of Heav'n, the beamy hght. 

 Clad in the fleecy fpoils of fheep, proceed 

 The holy priefts ; Pothius at their head. 

 With flaming brands and offerings, march the train. 

 And bid the hallow'd altars blaze again; 

 With care the copious viands they difpofc ; 

 And for their guefls a fécond banquet rofe. 

 1 he fires curl high ; the Salii dance around 

 To facred ftraius, with fhady poplars crown'd. 



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