Sacrum bodies are seen to be united at their circumferences by bone, wide intervals being left centrally, which, in the fresh state, are filled by the intervertebral discs. The dorsal surface of the sacrum is convex and narrower than the pelvic surface. In the middle line is the median sacral crest, surmounted by three or four tubercles—the rudimentary spinous processes of the upper three or four sacral vertebrae. On either side of the median sacral crest is a shallow sacral groove, which gives origin to the multifidus muscle. The floor of the groove is formed by the united laminae of the
Ver sacrum of the Roman people ("iussu populi"), then he specified a long series of unfavourable events and circumstances which were as a rule regarded as invalidating but would not be so as far as the present "votum" was concerned in the case they happen. The overall authenticity of the formula preserved in Livy's passage has been noticed by Dumézil while the exceptional theological and juridical prudence showed by Lentulus in ensuring that both fraud and ignorance of private citizens would not affect the validity of the "sacrum" and harm the Roman people has been remarked by Bouché-Leclercq. Ver sacrum Ver sacrum