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EXPLANATORY NOTES.—SECULAR HYMN. 419
Aventine Hill. Algidmn. Consult note on Ode i., 21, 6.—70. Quindecim
precei virorum. The Quindecemvir, to whose custody the Sibylline
cooks were confided, always began tbeir consultation of these oracles with
prayers. To them also was intmsted the general superintendence of
the SoBcnlar solemnities.—73. iteec Jovem tentire, lea. The order of con-
struction is as follows: Ego chorus, doctits dicere laudes et Phcebi et
Diarue, reporto domum bonam certamque spent, Jovem cunctosque deos
tentire hoc. This proceeds from the united chorus of youths and maidens,
who, being represented by their corypheeus, or leader, appear as a single
xudividual. In our own idiom, however, the plural must be substituted
We, the chorus," &o.—flisc sentire. " Ratify these our prayers." Sen
tire is here used in the sense cSsaticire-
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