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Salve, Q. Pomponius Atticus!
Multas gratias. That clears things up.
Vale bene!

Salve Marce!
Not to be a buttinsky, but I just got to say... These prayers are really good.
Hail M. Moravi Horati Piscine, for compiling & posting these prayers.
Vale bene!

Salve!
Welcome to Societas Via Romana.
Vale bene!

Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis

Salve Marce! Si vales, bene est.
Welcome aboard.
I'm 30, from PA, and never had the chance to study Latin. But I'm trying.
Good luck with your studies.
Vale bene!

Salvete Marce et omnes!
Multas gratias! That is exactly what I was looking for.
Valete bene!

SALVETE OMNES, S.V.B.E.V.

Does anybody know if the owl was a symbol of Minerva?
I haven't found a reference to the owl and Minerva yet.
Now does this have something to do with the Roman's fear of the strix?
Or are my research skills that lacking?

MULTAS GRATIAS VALETEQUE BENE!

MVLTAS GRATIAS, PISCINE!

I was under the mistaken impression that the Dei Praecipui indicated some sort of abandoning of other Roman Gods.

Many thanks,
VALE BENE!

SALVETE OMNES, S.V.B.E.V.
Excuse my ignorance here...
Do Varro's Dei Praecipui predate the Di Consentes?
Do the Dei Praecipui represent a move toward monotheism? Or hellenization? Or something else?
VALETE BENE!

SALVETE OMNES, S.V.B.E.V.
Was Apuleius, author of Metamorphosis a monotheist or polytheist?
MULTAS GRATIAS VALETEQUE BENE!

SALVETE OMNES, S.V.B.E.V.
Someone e-mailed me this:

30 B.C.: Roman poet Horace in his Epodes of Horace associated Witches with the goddess Diana in a mystery cult.

Is this true? Horace was a poet right? This shouldn't be taken as evidence of witchcraft in Classical Rome, correct?
MULTAS GRATIAS.

SALVETE OMNES, S.V.B.E.V.
I now have Gibbon, and T.J. Cornell's The Beginnings of Rome.
I think I'm going to read one after the other. Starting with Cornell.
MULTAS GRATIAS VALETEQUE BENE.

SALVETE OMNES, S.V.B.E.V.
Has anyone read Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
I just want to know if it's worthy.
MULTOS GRATIAS ET VALETE BENE!

SALVETE OMNES! SI VALENT, BENE EST, VALEO.

I would like to announce my candidacy for Aedilis.

MVLTOS GRATIAS ET VALETE BENE,
LVCIVS TYRRHENVS GARRVLVS

Salve Marce.
Rest assured there's no confusion of that type here. (More like disproving C.G. Leland.)
I'm off to search for the works Georgic I, De Rustica and Fasti, and will consult some Hellenismos on Phosphoros.
Multos gratias et vale bene.