Carmen Arvale
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The Carmen Arvale is the preserved chant of the Arval priests or Fratres Arvales of ancient Rome. The Carmen Arvale is preserved on an inscription discovered in 1778 during the construction of a sacra
Inscription of the Carmen Arvale
Sculpture of the emperor Lucius Verus in the costume of an Arval Brother (ca. 160 AD)
Carmen Saliare
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The Carmen Saliare is a fragment of archaic Latin, which played a part in the rituals performed by the Salii of Ancient Rome. There are 35 extant fragments of the Carmen Saliare, which can be read in
Carmen Arvale
…possible that the text may have been created by an Augustan scholar, who perhaps modeled the song after other ancient Latin writings, such as the Carmen Saliare. However, the philologist Zoa Alonso Fernández considers such a hypothesis to be "almost impossible to prove." Fernández does, however, suggest the…
Relief depicting the Salii (National Museum of Rome - Palazzo Altemps, Rome)