[2102] “Impetritis.”
[2103] “Qui favere linguis jubeat.” “Favete linguis” were the words used in enjoining strict silence.
[2104] By him who is offering up the prayer.
[2105] A trick adroitly performed by the priests, no doubt.
[2106] Given by Livy, in Books viii. and x.
[2107] To death, in battle, for the good of their country.
[2108] Preserved by Valerius Maximus, B. viii. c. 1. Tertullian and Saint Augustin doubt the authenticity of the story. She is said to have carried water in a sieve from the river Tiber to the temple of Vesta.
[2109] “Forum Boarium;” in the Eighth Region of the City.
[2110] Of Gaul, as Plutarch informs us, who mentions also the Greek victims, The immolation of the Gauls is supposed to have happened in the beginning of the reign of Vespasian.
[2111] Originally the “Decemviri Sacris Faciundis,” whose number was increased by Sylla to fifteen. They had the management of the Games of Apollo, and the Secular Games.