entum_,
which word is also found (Varro, _L.L._ v. 112). Festus,
p. 126, "magmentum magis augmentum"; Serv. _Aen._ iv.
57, to which passage I shall return. For the equivalent
in the Vedic ritual of the cooking and offering of the
exta, see Hubert et Mauss, _op. cit._ p. 60 foll.

[377] _R.F._ p. 89.

[378] _ib._ p. 10.

[379] Buecheler, _Umbrica_, pp. 60, 69, etc. Of course
the prayer might be said while other operations were
going on. For the constant connection of prayer and
sacrifice, see Pliny, _N.H._ xxviii. 10, "quippe
victimam caedi sine precatione non videtur referre aut
deos rite consuli." If Macrobius is right (iii. 2. 7
foll.) in asserting that the prayer must be said while
the priest's hand touches the altar, one may guess that
this was done at the same time that the exta were laid
on it. Ovid saw the priest at the Robigalia offer the
exta and say the prayer at the same time (_Fasti_, iv.
905 foll.), but does not mention the hand touching the
altar. For this see Serv. _Aen._ vi. 124; Horace, _Ode_
iii. 23. 17, and Dr. Postgate on this passage in
_Classical Review_ for March 1910.

[380] Cato, _R.R._ 132, 134, 139, and 141. That these
formulae were taken from the books of the pontifices is
almost certain, not only from the internal evidence of
the prayers themselves, but because Servius (Interpol.)
on _Aen._ ix. 641 quotes the words: "macte hoc vino
inferio esto," which occur in 132, introducing them
thus: "et in pontificalibus sacrificantes dicebant
deo...."

[381] The verb is omitted here for some ritualistic
reason, as in the Iguvian prayers (_Umbrica_, p. 55).

[382] Virg. _Aen._ ix. 641, "macte nova virtute puer,
sic itur ad astra," etc., and many other passages. The
verb _mactare_ acquired a general sense of sacrificial
slaying, as did also _immolare_, though neither had
originally any direct reference to slaughter. The best
account I find of the word is in H. Nettleship's
_Contributions to Latin Lexicography_, p. 520. He takes
_mactus_ as the participle of a lost verb _maco_ or
_mago_, to make great, increase, equivalent to _augeo_,
which is also a word of semi-religious meaning, as
Augustus knew. Nettleship quotes Cicero _in Vatinium_,
14, "puerorum extis deos manes mactare."

[383] Baehrens, _Fragm. Poet. Lat