Carmen Saliare
The Carmen Saliare is a fragmentary cult song in archaic Latin . The chant was part of the rituals performed by the Roman priesthood of the Salii . Mars and Quirinus were at the center of these rituals and took place in March and October. During the processions also was Carmen Saliare sung.
A total of 35 fragments of the hymn have been preserved, including a. with Marcus Terentius Varro in his work De Lingua Latina :
… Divum em pa cante, divum deo supplicate……
cume tonas, Leucesie, prae tet tremonti quot ibet etinei de is cum tonarem
…… cozevi oborieso. Omnia vero ad Patulcium commissei.
Ianeus iam es, duonus Cerus es, duonus Ianus.
Venies potissimum melios eum recum ...
or
... cume tonas, Leucesie, prae tet tremonti quom tibi cunei decstumum tonaront ...
Until now, linguists have not been able to fully translate the text. The familiar Latin words seem to refer to Donner, Janus and Ceres . Even Marcus Tullius Cicero could not read much of the singing. A comment written by Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus is lost.
literature
- Heike Kunz: Carmen Saliare. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 990 f.
- Berthold Maurenbrecher : Carminum Saliarium reliquiae . Teubner, Leipzig 1894 ( archive.org ).