The Roman Poets of the Republic

Chapter II Vestiges of Indigenous Poetry in Rome and Ancient Italy

Niebuhr’s theory of a Ballad-Poetry	28
The Saturnian metre	29
Ritual Hymns	31
Prophetic verses	33
Fescennine verses	34
Saturae	36
Gnomic verses	37
Commemorative verses	37
Inferences as to their character	38
″ from early state of the language	39
No public recognition of Poetry	40
Roman story result of tradition and reflection	41
Inferences from the nature of Roman religion	43
″ from the character and pursuits of the people	44
Roman Poetry of Italian rather than Roman origin	45