in favour of the last one. After the evocatio Macrobius writes about the “ devotio ” (better, an exsecratio ), quoting the two formulas and adducing Sammonicus Serenus as his source, who

Bendideia. Sokrates ‘thought the procession of the citizens (the epichorioi ) very fine, but it was no better than the show, made by the marching of the Thracian contingent’ ( Rep . 327a). Together the Thracians