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Satur fu, fere Mars! limen sali! sta! berber! Semunis alternei advocapit conctos! Enos, Marmar, iuvato! Triumpe! Which may be thus interpreted: To the gods: -Nos, Lares, iuvate! Satur esto, fere Mars! To all the brethren: Semones alterni advocate cunctos! To the god: Nos, Mamers, iuvato! To the individual brethren: Tripudia! Panegyrics and Lampoons

Satur fu, fere Mars! limen sali! sta! berber! Semunis alternei advocapit conctos! Enos, Marmar, iuvato! Triumpe! Which may be thus interpreted: To the gods: -Nos, Lares, iuvate! Satur esto, fere Mars! To all the brethren: Semones alterni advocate cunctos! To the god: Nos, Mamers, iuvato! To the individual brethren: Tripudia! Panegyrics and Lampoons

No specimens of the literature of Rome precede the Sibylline books, except the rude hymn known as the Litany of the Arval Brothers, dating from the time of Romulus himself, which is simply an address to Mars, the Lares, and the Semones, praying for fair weather and for protection to the flocks.

The Indigites were heroes who were ranked among the gods, and included particularly Hercules, Castor and Pollux, and Quirinus or Romulus. The Semones comprehended those deities that presided over particular objects, as Pan, the god of shepherds; Flora, the goddess of flowers, etc.

The family of the Roman gods continued to increase by adopting the divinities of the conquered nations, and more particularly by the introduction of those of Greece. The general division of the gods was twofold, the superior and inferior deities. The first class contained the Consentes and the Selecti; the second, the Indigetes and Semones.