‘Next he turned his attention to the appointment of priests. He himself, however, conducted a great many religious. V . 71 TY'VY services,， especially t"Y1 } 1 Y "f . 1毕se which.黔long to the Fiamen of ,) up iter.7 But he thought that in a wariixe sure there would be more kings of the type of Romulus than of Numa who would take the field in person. To guard, therefore, against the sacrificial rites which the king performed， being interrupted,、 he appointed'1P'17 1 . Y 1 1 `I . 7 a 111amen as perpetual priest to Jupiter, and ordered that he should wear a distinctive dress an in the ro ya curule chair. He appointed two additional Flamens, one for M ars the other for Quirinus, and also chose virgins as priestesses to ve进a. This order o# priestesses came into existence originally in .Alba and was connected with_ the race of the founder二He assigned them, a public stipend that they might give their whole time the temple。and made their Dersons sacred and inviolable tibh OWLe aVow of chastity and other religious sanctions. Similarly chose twelve“Salii”for Mars Gradivus, and assigned to there the distinctive dress of an embroidered tunic over it a brazen cuirass. 'hey were instructed to march solemn processzon t1r ouch the City, carrying the twelve shieldsTryrouah the City, carrying the twelve shields called ‘‘口尹产袱 a,.a the“Ancilia_ ，’and singing hymns accompanied by a solemn dance in triple time. The next office to be filled was that of the Pontifex : aximus. Numa appointed. the son of Marcus, one of the senators Numa : arcxus---and， all the regulations bearing on: religion,. written, -1 , , . , . , ,r",r , . , out and sealed, were placed in his cna笔e. Here was laid down with what victims, on·what days, and at what temples the various surinces were to oe onerea, and zrom what sources tae expenses connected with them were to be defrayed. He placed all other sacred functions, both public and private, under the supervision of the Pontifex, in order that there might be an authority for the people to consult, and so all trouble and confusion arising through foreign rites being adopted and their ancestral ones neglected might be ,avoided. Nor were his functions confined to directing the worship of the celestial gods he was to instruct the people how to conduct funerals and appease the spirits of the departed, axe4呻at prodigies sent by lignt只in琴。三in，多妙，尸tner.way梦叮“万9.。“ attended to and cxpiatea. -1-0 elicit tnese signs or the axvine an altar to Jupiter rilmclus on the Aventine,‘ god throu沙auguries, as to which prodigies were to receive attention.