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This story about the diviners and that senarius The senarius was an iambic trimeter, consisting of six iambic feet, or three dipodies. The early Roman dramatic poets allowed substitutions (the tribrach, irrational spondee, irrational anapaest, cyclic dactyl, and proceleusmatic) in every foot except the last; others conformed more closely to the Greek models. is found in the Annales Maximi, in the eleventh book, Fr. 3, Peter. and in Verrius Flaccus' first book of Things Worth Remembering. p. xiii, Müller. But the verse appears to be a translation of the Greek poet Hesiod's familiar line: Works and Days, 166. And evil counsel aye most evil is To him who gives it.
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A quotation from an early decree of the senate, which provided that sacrifice should be made with full-grown victims because the spears of Mars had moved in the sanctuary; also an explanation of the meaning of hostiae succidaneae and likewise of porca praecidanea; and further, that Ateius Capito called certain holidays praecidaneae.
