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[10] ave atque vale: the offerings are concluded with the final farewell that should have been spoken at the burial. The fullest form of this conclamatio was salve, vale, ave, but other forms are mentioned; cf. Verg. A. 11.97salve aeternum mihi, maxime Palla, aeternumque vale” ; Servius on Verg. A. 2.644; and the selection of forms occurring in inscriptions in the index to Wilmann's Exempla Inscr. Lat. 2. p.692.


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