Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans; . ioned by Pliny respected only private and magical sacred rites,and those alluded to, Horat. Epod. 5. Augustus, after he hadcompelled L. Antonius to a surrender at Perusia, ordered 400senators and equites, who had sided with Antony, to be sacri-ficed as victims on the altar of Julius Caesar, on the ides ofMarch, A. U. 713. Suetonius makes them only 300. To thissavage action Seneca alludes, de Clem. i. 11. In like Pompeius threw into the sea not only horses, but also menalive, as victims to Neptune. Boysuse
Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans; . ioned by Pliny respected only private and magical sacred rites,and those alluded to, Horat. Epod. 5. Augustus, after he hadcompelled L. Antonius to a surrender at Perusia, ordered 400senators and equites, who had sided with Antony, to be sacri-ficed as victims on the altar of Julius Caesar, on the ides ofMarch, A. U. 713. Suetonius makes them only 300. To thissavage action Seneca alludes, de Clem. i. 11. In like Pompeius threw into the sea not only horses, but also menalive, as victims to Neptune. Boysused to be cruelly put to death,even in the time of Cicero andHorace, for magical purposes.^ A place reared for ofl^eringsacrifices was called ara or altare,an altar.^ In the phrase, proarts et focis^ ara is put for thealtar in the impluvium or middleof the house, where the Penateswere worshipped ; and focus, forthe hearth in the atrium or hall,where the Lares were worship-ped. A secret place in the temple,where none but priests entered,was called adytum, universallyrevered.^. 1 ex legione Romana,called Scripta, becauseperhaps the soldiersnot included in the le-pion, the Velit s, Su-titarii, ,&c. were excepted. 2 piaculum, i. e. in pia-Ciilum, hostiam cjeclere,\Av. viii. 10. 3 Macrob. Sat. i. 7. 4 ne homo immolare-lur, Plin. xiot. 1. s. 3. 5 qui sustulere mon-stra, in quibus homi-nem occidere religio-sissimum erat, mandivern etiam saluberri-mum, ib. 6 Cic. Vat 14. Hor. Ep. 5. Dio. xliii, 14. 48. 15. 7 altaria, ab altitudine,tantuni diis superisconsecrabantur; _ araaet diis superis et infe-ris,—Altaria, so calledab altitudine fromtheir height, were con. secrated only to thesupernal deities; arae,both to the supernaland infernal, Eel. V. 66. ^ Jans. r. 32. C;es. 4-2. Dom. 40, 41. 264 ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. Altars used to be covered with leaves and grass, called ver-bena, i. e. Ii
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