the procession as a funeral procession or a magistrate’s journey to the underworld accompanied by games, though most recent interpretations follow Colini’s interpretation of it as a triumphal procession [...] addition to signs of a formal procession, there are combat scenes that have been interpreted either as games or as battle. In one, a figure wearing a shield on the left arm raises the right arm in a fighting

, loca and city; be favourable to the Roman people and army. In exchange of this temples and games are vowed to her. The pronunciation of the carmen comes with a sacrifice and entrails’ consultation [...] vow according to which, if he had succeeded in capturing Veii, he would have celebrated magnificent games and would have built a new temple to Mater Matuta [32] or dedicated again the old one