Replies to Minor Queries.
_Verses in Prose._--I consider the following _not_ to be an instance of
casual versification by prose authors:
"Fides antiquitatis religione firmatur. Stato tempore in sylvam,
"'Auguriis patrum et priscâ formidine sacram,'
"omnes ejusdem sanguinis populi legationibus coëunt."
_Tacit. Germ._ cap. 39.
But I consider it to be a quotation from some lost Roman poet. It is too
lofty and sonorous to be casual, though such quotations are unusual to
the historian.