in Antiquity, a denomination given to the verses or songs of the Salii, which they sang in honour of all men. The word is formed, according to some, from axare, q. d. nominare. Others will have the Carnicae Salariae to have been denominated axamenta, on account of their having been written in axibus, or on wooden tables. The axamenta were not composed, as some have asserted, but only sung by the Salii. The author of them was Numa Pompilius; and as the style might not be altered, they grew in time so obscure that the Salii them-