In the fifth book the position of the one hymn to Varuna is one favorable to spurious additions, but the hymn is not otherwise obnoxious to the criticism of lateness.

Of the two hymns in the second book, the first is addressed only indirectly to Varuna, nor is he here very prominent; the second (ii.

28) is the only song which stands on a par with the hymn already translated.

There remain the hymns cited above from the first, not a family-book.

It is, moreover, noteworthy that in ii.