[522] Varro, R.R. i. 1.
[523] e.g. Virg. Aen. v. 685 (Aeneas during the burning of the fleet); Aen. xii. 776 (Turnus in extremity). Cp. Tibull. iii. 5. 6 (in sickness).
[524] A good example is Captivi, 922: "Iovi disque ago gratias merito magnas quom te redducem tuo patri reddiderunt," etc.
[525] For gratitude to human beings see Valerius Maximus v. 2. A good example of gratitude to a deity is in Gell. N.A. iv. 18; but it is told of Scipio the elder, who was eccentric for a Roman. When accused by a tribune of peculation in Asia he said, "Non igitur simus adversum deos ingrati et, censeo, relinquamus nebulonem hunc, eamus hinc protinus Iovi Optimo Maximo gratulatum." Public gratitude to the gods is frequent in later supplicationes, e.g. Livy xxx. 17. 6.
[526] Gellius, N.A. xiv. 7. 9.
[527] Servius ad Aen. xi. 301 ("praefatus divos solio rex infit ab alto").
[528] This was in a contio: "Cum Gracchus deos inciperet precari." See above, Lecture VII. note 13.
[529] See R.F. p. 74 foll.; Wissowa, R.K. p. 243. For the relation of the pomoerium to the wall, see above, p. 94.
[530] The process is amusingly explained by Carter in The Religion of Numa, p. 72 foll.
[531] R.F. p. 75.