Eclogae ex QHoratii Flacci poematibus . rofestis lucibus et sacris; that is,diebus et profestis et festis, both on holidays and common days.— 176 Q. HORATII rLACCI. Cum prole matronisque nostrisRite deos prius apprecati, Virtute functos more patrum ducesLydis remixto carmine tibiis 30 Trojamque et Anchisen et almaeProgeniem Veneris canemus. 28. Apprecati, a rare word first used by Horace, = precati. — patrum. It was an old custom among the Romans to havesongs m praise of their ancestors sung at their feasts, and accompa-nied by a flute-player. Horace says he will do this, celebratingp
Eclogae ex QHoratii Flacci poematibus . rofestis lucibus et sacris; that is,diebus et profestis et festis, both on holidays and common days.— 176 Q. HORATII rLACCI. Cum prole matronisque nostrisRite deos prius apprecati, Virtute functos more patrum ducesLydis remixto carmine tibiis 30 Trojamque et Anchisen et almaeProgeniem Veneris canemus. 28. Apprecati, a rare word first used by Horace, = precati. — patrum. It was an old custom among the Romans to havesongs m praise of their ancestors sung at their feasts, and accompa-nied by a flute-player. Horace says he will do this, celebratingparticularly Anchises, and Aeneas, the son of Venus: for fromthese the gens Julia, to which Augustus belonged, traced its de-scent.— 30. Lydis remixto carmine tihiis, in a song mixed with(accompanied by) Lydian flutes. The flute is called Lydian, be-cause it was much used by the Lydians. Some commentators sup-pose that allusion is here made to the peculiar measure calledLydian, and well known as effeminate; but this is Boman Standard. CAKMEN SAECULAKE. In the year 17 b. c. Augustus celebrated the ludi saeculares. Thesewere instituted in the earHest times of Rome, to mark withsolemnity the long-est period to which human life was supposedever to extend: but it was a disputed point whether saeculum inregard to these games meant, as in common usage, a space of100, or, in a peculiar religious sense, 110 years. Both viewsfound supporters, Augustus, after the pacification of the em-pire, wishing to reawaken the religious feeling of the people,which during the long civil wars had almost died away, re-solved to revive these games, which, as Suetonius {August. 31)tells us, had fallen into disuse. He ordered the Sibylline booksto be consulted ; and these, taking the cycle of 110 years, statedthe year and the mode of celebrating the festival. The nextwho celebrated these games was the Emperor Claudius, a. d. 47(a. u. c. 800), following the cycle of 100 years; then a. d. 8
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