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grbs-16410	Poletti, Beatrice	The Agency of Prayers: The Legend of M. Furius Camillus in Dionysius of Halicarnassus	2020	27	.pdf	application/pdf	10490	407	57	1–64, with examples from both Greek and 378 THE AGENCY OF PRAYERS ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 60 (2020) 360–386 third components were interchangeable depending on the urgency of the petitioner’s wish.42 Compared to Greek prayers, Roman prayers could present a more elaborate invocatio, in which the precise identification of the deity called upon for help was felt as crucial.43 In case of uncertainty, the Roman custom was to supply a name ad hoc or use formulas including either gender.44 In complex invocations with multiple deities, the name of the individual gods preceded general divine categories.45 There were naturally differences between prayers composed for and recited in public liturgies and individual prayers; yet the latter, however ‘spontaneous’, appear to have been modelled on the same standard structure.46 Prayers or curses in magical contexts and defixiones were characterized by similar elements although they allowed for more flexibility and thus presented more numerous types and variations. Livy, followed by other sources, relates that before taking Veii Camillus had vowed a tenth of the plunder to Apollo.	cache/grbs-16410.pdf	txt/grbs-16410.txt