e_), where Jupiter simply
stands for the heaven and its influence on the earth;
and line 73 (_haec Iovem sentire_, etc.), where he is
introduced in the most general way as head of all
deities.

[947] Line 147 of the inscription: "Sacrificioque
perfecto puer[i X] XVII quibus denuntiatum erat patrimi
et matrimi et puellae totidem carmen cecinerunt:
_eodemque modo in Capitolio_. Carmen composuit Q.
Horatius Flaccus."

[948] _Eph. epigr._ viii. 256. Wissowa, _Gesamm.
Abhandl._ p. 206, note, who refers to Vahlen and Christ
as differing from Mommsen, in papers which I have not
seen. Wissowa says that the threefold division of the
hymn "springt in die Augen"; but this has never been my
experience.

[949] Apart from the awkwardness for singers of the
descent from the Palatine and the steep ascent to the
Capitol, we may remember that they would have to pass
under the fornix Fabianus, which was not much more than
nine feet broad (Lanciani, _Ruins and Excavations_, p.
217).

[950] See Huelsen-Jordan, _Topographie_, iii. 72 and
note. See also map at the end of the volume, No. 1 of
the series. There is, however, some doubt as to whether
the site was not on the side of the Palatine looking
towards the Tiber over the Circus maximus. See my paper
in the _Classical Quarterly_, 1910, p. 145 foll. If so,
my explanation of the performance of the hymn seems
rather to be confirmed than weakened.

[951] Ovid, _Tristia_, iii. 1. 59 foll.

[952] Propertius, iii. 28 (31): "In quo Solis erat supra
fastigia currus." No one seems to have noticed the
connection between this and Horace's allusion to Sol,
which is otherwise not easy to explain.

[953] I will not enter on the insoluble question as to
what stanzas or parts of stanzas were sung by the boys
and girls respectively. That the hymn was so sung in
double chorus is intrinsically probable, and stated in
the oracle, lines 20, 21. Some of the schemes which have
been propounded are given in Wickham's _Horace_. I
imagine that the stanzas may have been sung alternately
except in the case of the first two and the last, but
the ninth looks as though it might have been divided
between the two choirs. Ferrero has a scheme of his
own, p. 91 foll.; and if he had taken a little more
pains might have worked out