Satires 2.5 (Horace) the over-insistent heir in Thebes who was required by the will of his benefactor to carry her oil-soaked slippery carcass on his shoulders during the funeral procession. "Satire 2.5" is often thought of as the least “Horatian” of the Satires and is often compared to works by Juvenal, a poet of the 1st century AD. Juvenal’s poems focus on the perversions of man and hint at Man’s loss of “his highest potentialities”. Many scholars acknowledge this cynicism in "Satire 2.5" and see a connection between the two authors. As Shackleton Bailey writes, “Uniquely for Horace, it concerns a particular social
Carmen Saliare Carmen Saliare The Carmen Saliare is a fragment of archaic Latin, which played a part in the rituals performed by the Salii (Salian priests, a.k.a. "leaping priests") of Ancient Rome. There are 35 extant fragments of the "Carmen Saliare", which can be read in Morel's "FPL". The rituals revolved around Mars and Quirinus, and were performed in March and October. These involved processions in which they donned archaic armour and weapons, performed their sacred dance, and sang the "Carmen Saliare". As a body they existed before the founding of the Roman Republic, tracing their origin back to the reign of