Salvete
These prayers come a number of Latin authors who lived during the Republican era.
L. Accius (c. 170-86BCE)
Aenead sive Decius fr. 4
Invincible Holiness, with venerating prayers I ask that You send good portents to signify a change for the better for the people of our nation.
Erigona fr. 4
What I wish for, Goddess: may it have been a sacrifice, the arching missile You enjoin to me.. By this then may we approach to the other side.
L. Afranius Emancipatus (c. 100 BCE)
Fabula Togata fr. 11
I pray by the Gods that everything will be made fortunate.
Caecilius Statius (d. 166 BCE)
Synephebi fr. 3
Aloud I call out, I demand, I implore, I beg, I bewail, I entreat you, Fides.
Q. Ennius (239-170 BCE)
Annales I 118-21:
Romulus, O Romulus among the Gods, divinely begotten guardian of his country. O Father, Father of our people, O descendant of the Gods, you have brought us into the Light, born us upon these shores. Romulus, may you eternally live in Heaven among the children of the Gods.
Annales I fr. 141:
And you Lares, care for our house that you established.
Annales VI 200-3:
Gods, listen to this for a while, on behalf of the Roman people, born of arms and here now fighting, with foresight this body I dispatch.
Hecuba
O great heavenly temples, conjoined with the splendid stars.
Andromacha
Hail, gods of Hades, whose high temples overlook the flowing Acheron.
Laevius
FPR fr. 26; p. 292
Therefore adoring You as though You were nurturing Venus Herself, whether You are female, or whether You are male, even so, Illuminating the Night, You are a nurturing Moon.
Livius Andronicus (c. 240 BCE)
Odisia I 1:
Camena, in hot pursuit of clever men, come to me
Odisia 1.45
Our Father, son of Saturnus.
Equos Troianos
Grant me the strength, you whom I ask, to whom I pray; help me to arise.
Lucretius Carus (c. 99-55 BCE)
De Rerum Natura I 1-9
Venus Genetrix, charmer of gods and mankind, nurturing Mother, beneath the starry signs that glide through the night, You enliven the ship-bearing seas and the fruitful earth, since it is through You that all things are conceived and animated into life to behold the Light of Day. Goddess, for You the winds make way, the heavenly clouds open at Your coming, the miraculous earth greets You with sweet scented flowers, for You the surface of the seas laugh, and the peaceful heavens glisten in luminescence.
Pacuvius (c. 220-130 BCE)
Medus fr. 2
Sol, I call to You that You may guide me on my search for my parents.
Terentius (c. 185-159 BCE)
Andria 232
I pray, you Gods, grant an easy delivery to this girl, and assign to someone else the fate of when the midwife makes her mistakes.
Valerius Soranus
FPL fr.4 (August. Civ. Dei 7.9)
Almighty Jupiter, who both engendered and fathered kings, things, and gods, God of Gods, who are both One