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In my youth in Rome, when I was still in attendance on the grammarians, I gave special attention to Sulpicius Apollinaris. Once when there was a discussion about augural law and mention had been made of praepetes aves, I heard him say to Erucius Clarus, the city prefect, that in his opinion praepetes was equivalent to Homer's tanupte/ruges, or wide-winged, since the augurs had special regard to those birds whose flight was broad and wide because of their great wings. And then he quoted these verses of Homer: Iliad xii. 237 f.
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On Acca Larentia and Gaia Taracia; and on the origin of the priesthood of the Arval Brethren.
