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203:), which were sacred laws and required knowledge of pontifical records; therefore, the interests of Granius in legal and religious formulas should be seen as compatible. Granius recorded, for instance, that 61:, that is, those pontifical books that contained prayer formularies or lists of deity names as a reference for accurate invocations. Granius dedicated this work to Caesar, as his contemporary 527:
Granius Flaccus in libro de iure Papiriano scribit pellicem nunc volgo vocari, quae cum eo, cui uxor sit, corpus misceat: quosdam eam, quae uxoris loco sine nuptiis in domo sit, quam
570: 293:(Cambridge University Press, 1998), vol. 1, p. 152; Matthias Klinghardt, "Prayer Formularies for Public Recitation: Their Use and Function in Ancient Religion," 383: 177: 590: 550: 585: 382:(Newman Press, 1949), pp. 35, 36, 216, 221–222, 258, 364–365. The passage involving Aristotle, Minerva, and the Moon is 545:
The fragments of Granius Flaccus, conflated with those of Granius Licinianus, are collected by Philipp Eduard Huschke,
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only indirectly, and cites Granius as his intermediary source at least once. Granius, he says, demonstrates that
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Numam Pompilium, cum sacra Romanis conderet, voto impetrasses, ut omnes dii falsum iuramentum vindicarent
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Cicero does not actually mention Granius or the book; the dating is by scholarly inference.
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cites him jointly with Varro as an authority on a religious point.
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Four times, and a possible fifth as "Flaccus," who may also be
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Granius was used as a source on ancient Roman religion by the
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in libro quem ad Caesarem de indigitamentis scriptum reliquit
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Eleanor G. Huzar, "Emperor Worship in Julio-Claudian Egypt,"
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were one and the same. He shared the view of Varro that the
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originated with the work of Granius at the beginning of
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Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece
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dates the book to sometime after October 46 BC. The
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Julius Caesar
Augustus
indigitamenta
Varro
Censorinus
Macrobius
Church Fathers
Arnobius
Pythagorean
Nigidius Figulus
Cicero
Aristotle
Minerva
Luna
Novensiles
Muses
Genius
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Apollo
Father Liber
Mount Parnassus
Verrius Flaccus
Digest
Justinian
Ius Papirianum

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