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Show i L H 1 b g 1 ( M 1 di 180 s T il ¥ i\ 14 j" L i it i 1: 1 ul S S 1 v B RI 2 I i L Al 1% | f 1yO "‘\ RS | 1'.. i Abi filie . R ] M fiat IR 1 A HEU M JeH b i i W a perform'd, and made Eleven others, tha 1 toward Form to the Original, that in caf there fhould be a defign of ftealing i away, the true misht not be diftinguifh'd or known from thofe whic were Counterfeit. This difficult Wor one Veturius Mamurius very luckil { E ss A 10 MEL i Numa himfelf could not know fro the firft5 and for the keeping of thef he Inftituted thisOrder of Priefts call' Saliiya Saliendo, from Leaping or ‘Dancing. They livd all in a Body, an compofed a College confifting of th {fame Number of Men, with the Bucklers which they prefervd. The thre Seniors govern'd the reft, of whom th firft had the Name of Prezfu/, the fecond of Vates,and the other of Magifler In performing their Proceflion the us'd {everal mimble Motions and Milstary Gefliculations, to the Sound o the Flutes, keeping juft Meafures wit their Feet, and demonftrating grea Strength and Agility, by the variou an handfo Turn o th Body fometimes one of ‘em alone, and {ometimes all of them in Chorus, fingin certain Peans appropriated to thei Country call'd Carmen Saliare; theOrigina |