[4455,1]
The poems out of
which what we call the history of the Roman Κings was resolved into a
prose narrative, were different from the nenia in form, and of great
extent; consisting partly of lays united into a uniform whole, partly of
such as were detached and without any necessary connexion. The history
of Romulus is an epopee by
itself: on Numa there can only
have been short lays. Tullus,
the story of the Horatii, and
of the destruction of Alba, form an epic whole,
like the poem on Romulus: indeed
here Livy has preserved a
fragment of the poem entire, in the lyrical numbers of the old Roman
verse. (not. 636. The verses of the horrendum
carmen I. 26.
Duúmviri pérduelliónem júdicent.
Si a duúmviris provocárit,
Provocátióne certáto:
Si víncent, caput óbnúbito: 4456 Infélici arbore réste suspéndito:
Vérberato íntra vel éxtra pomoérium. *
Duúmviri pérduelliónem júdicent.
Si a duúmviris provocárit,
Provocátióne certáto:
Si víncent, caput óbnúbito: 4456 Infélici arbore réste suspéndito:
Vérberato íntra vel éxtra pomoérium. *
