treaty and troth in the weighing of the gold, they have launched terror and rout and death. MI.“When you see such momentous consequences for human affairs flowing from the worship or the nezlect of the nods. ，__，，.X·，，，几。·V，…‘。r ao you nor reause. vuirites。now gear a sin. we are meaitatinLy ，石，，，，，尹、。A，. 7，。，，、. wnlst naraq yet emerging from the snlpwrecx causea oy our former guilt and fall?we possess a City which was founded with the divine approval as revealed in auguries and auspices;in it there is not a spot which is not full of religious associations and the presence of a god;the regular sacrifices have their appAre罗places5 noQuirites, g攘than they havee their appointed days.to desert all these gods--those whom. the State honours, those whom you worship, each at your own altars?How far does your action come up to that of the glorious vouth C. Fabius. during the sieze, which was watched by the .声矛、.产‘.尸e. enemy with no less admiration than by you, when he went down from the Citadel through the missiles of the Gauls and celebrated the appointed sacrifice of his house on the Quirinal?whilst the sacred rites of the patrician houses are not interrupted even in time of war, are you content to see the State offices of rel xgion and the nods of Rome abandoned in a time of peace?Are the YontmS ana r lamens t0 oe more neglectiui ox tnexr pual1c functions than a private individual is of the religious obligations of his house? “Some one may possibly reply that we can either disch arge these duties at Veil or send priests to discharge them here. But neither of these things can be done if the rites are to be duly performed. Not to mention all the ceremonies or all the deities individually, where else, I would ask, but in the Capitol can the couch of Jupiter be prepared on the day of his festal banquet? What need is there for me to speak about the perpetual fire of Vesta, and the Image---the pledge of our dominion一 which is in the safe keeping of her temple?And you, Mars Gradivus, and you。Father Quirinus.what need .护产、.r shields? Is itvour wish that all these ho斤things。 coeval with 一~一一一一一一，一~~甲扩~一一”，~一’自自一，一一~自~，’八‘丫自J，“八入曲匕.a，~‘”氏‘八截 the t.,xty, some or even greater antiquity, should be abandoned an11终left on unhallowed soil?.See少o,妙w great the differencer. nezween us and our ancestors., Y " 1，-i-.n.ey left to us certain。 ritesw w r ., and ceremonies which we can only ctuly perform on the Alban"w r r ,r r . , . Iviount or at Lavinium. If it was a matter of religion that these rites should not De transferred from cities which belonged to an enemy to us at Rome, shall we transfer them from, here to the enemies' city, Veii, without offending heaven? Call to mind.I pray you,h ow of ten ceremonies‘ are犷P乡ated，because. through negligence or accident some aetaxf oar me ancestral ritual has 踩omled留d.e What remedy was therethe war with Veii after the黯republic, whent of the Alban 踩except the revival of sacred rites and the taking of freshes ? And more than that, as though after all we reverenced the ancient-r. , ,华沙;;we have transferred foreign dei协es to .r1ome, and nave estamisnea. new ones." , r ',; .. Y，，queen. .l uno was， latelyr " w carried from ven andCeaicatea on the八ventfne, andnOw splendidly that day was celebrated through the grand enthu-siasm of our matrons! We ordered a temple to be built toAius Locutius because of the divine Voice which was heard in the Via Nova. We have added to our annual festivals the Canitoline Games, and on the authority of the senate eve 山r have founded a college of priests to superintend them. What necessity was there for all these undertakings if we intended to leavetheCityofRomeat the same time as the Gauls. if it wasleave the o not of our own free will tnat we remaznea in me uapitof tarougn all those months, but the fear of the enemy which shut us up there户 “We are speaking about the temples and. the sacred rites and ceremonies. but wnat, pray, about the priests r Do you nor. realise what a heinous sin will be committed? For the Vestals surely there is only that one abode, from which nothing has ever removed them but the capture of the City. The Flamen of Jupiter is forbidden by divine law to stay a single night outside the City, Are you going to make these functionaries priests、 of Veii instead of priests of Rome ?Will thv Vestals desert thee. Vesta?Is the Flamen to bring 婉fresh guilt upon himself and如 s oj ourns abroad r I pink ox the orner the auspices have been duly taken, we within the City boundaries---to what oblivion, to what neglect are we consiznina them!The Assembly 户，八尹.，，，，户.，W，，，，几，_，‘ 。毛脚“吧n竿，wnlcn co甲e移the su举e砰兮，command, Lnew w产ssem母ly of me unturies, in wnicn you eiecr the consuls and consular tribunes--where can they be held and the auspices taken except where they are wont to be held? Shall we transfer these to Veii, or acre the people, when an Assembly is to be held, to meet at vast inconvenience in this City after it has been deserted by gods and men? 3 5'O·Livy