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Veranius was a writer on Roman augural and pontifical law of the late Republic, cited by Festus and Macrobius. His works on the auspices and his Pontificales quaestiones are lost. The fragments printed by Funaioli explain the postponement of an appointed day, paludati, the felices arbores, eximiae hostiae, muries, offendices, oletum, porricere, porca praesentanea and prodiguae hostiae. The text follows Hyginus Funaioli’s Grammaticae Romanae Fragmenta (Leipzig 1907), without his testimonia, notes and apparatus.
They record details of sacrificial and priestly practice, such as the preparation of the muries used by the Vestal Virgins, which are known from few other sources. Veranius is known almost only through these citations, so the fragments give nearly all that survives of his work. They show that the technical vocabulary of augury and sacrifice was a subject of learned study in the late Republic, and Festus’ dictionary preserves much of it through Verrius Flaccus.
About this edition. The Latin text was transcribed for this library from a public-domain printed edition (edition: Hyginus Funaioli, Grammaticae Romanae Fragmenta, Leipzig 1907 (vol. 1, pp. 430–433)), using the scan and text recognition at the Internet Archive; the editor’s notes and critical apparatus are not reproduced. Every word has been analyzed with LatinCy, a neural language model for Latin — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from Lewis & Short’s A Latin Dictionary.