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Excerpt from De Precationum Romanarum Sermone: Dissertatio Inauguralis Quam Ad Summos in Philosophia Honores Ab Amplissimo Philosophorum Ordine Gissensi Rite Capessendos
Locuturi de adorationum Romanarum sermone materiam tres fere in partes distribuamus, quarum prima exponam us, quibus occasionibus datis Romani precati sint, altera, qualis fuerit ipse precationum senno, tertia, quomodo certae preca tiones usu tamquam detritae sint. Quibus in capitibus per tractandis passim etiam poetis, qui, quamvis Graecos imitentur, baud raro exhibent vere Romana, ut'emur.
Quis est, qui nesciat, quanta Romani fuorint religione? Quin etiam paene credideris illos aliquante magis quam Graecos pietatis erga deos laude ?oruisse, praesertim cum nonnulla scriptorum Graecorum testimonia passim tradita ad nos per veuerint, ex quibus intellegatur Romanos religiosius quam Graecos coluisse deus. Sed si consideraveris Graecos quin gentis annis ante ad similem ac Romanos postea cultum atque humanitatem pervenisse, iam intelleges illa Graecorum scrip torum verba artis rhetoricae continere locus communes, quibus depravati Graecorum, qui tune vivebant, mores improbentur. Tamen bos locos aiferam, cum sint Romanorum erga deos pietatis testimonia. Polybius dicit VI 56, 6: Meylou;v dé poe dozeî dzaAbout the Publisher
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