I.VII.Servian Wall 13.

I.VI.Time and Occasion of the Reform 14.

I.II.

Religion 15.

-Vates- probably denoted in the first instance the "leader of the singing" (for so the -vates- of the Salii must be understood) and thereafter in its older usage approximated to the Greek -- propheiteis--; it was a word be longing to religious ritual, and even when subsequently used of the poet, always retained the accessory idea of a divinely-inspired singer--the priest of the Muses.
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