Volturus in spinis miserum mandebat homonem.
Among the ruder characteristics of his diction, his use of prosaic and technical terms is especially to be noticed. The following lines, for instance, read more like the bare statement of a chronicle, or of a legal document, than an extract from a poetical narrative:—
Cives Romani tunc facti sunt Campani;
and this
Appius indixit Karthaginiensibu' bellum;
and these lines enumerating the various priesthoods established by Numa,—
Volturnalem Palatualem Furrinalem
Floralemque Falacrem et Pomonalem fecit
Hic idem.