33/46 28; Plutarch, Poplicola, 17; comp. 70). But there was at any rate an epoch when the dominion of Rome over Italy demanded a certain knowledge of the language of the country on the part of Romans of rank. The employment of the lyre in ritual is attested by Cicero de Orat.iii.51, 197; Tusc.iv.2, 4; Dionysius, vii. |