Diverted from his purpose at this intelligence in no other way than to order that the body should be buried,[74] he goes through the prayer, and dedicates the temple.

These were the transactions at home and abroad the first year after the expulsion of the kings.

After this P.Valerius, a second time, and Titus Lucretius, were elected consuls.
[Footnote 72: The Horatii being of the _minores patres_.Nieb.i.

p.
533.] [Footnote 73: _Funesta familia_, as having in it an unburied corpse.
Thus Misenus, whilst unburied, _incestat funere classem_.Virg.AEn.

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150.] [Footnote 74: He here rejected the omen.Cic.i.7, 14.; auguria aut _oblativa_ sunt, quae non poscuntur, aut _impetrativa_, quae optata veniunt.