r ASSAMENTA, in Antiquity, verses or songs of the Salii, which they sung in honour of Mars, certain other gods, and heroes. The axamenta were not composed, as some have asserted, but only sung by the Salii. They were as old as the Roman state, but tradition made Numa their author. They grew in time so obscure that the Salii themselves did not understand them. Varro, De Ling. Lat. vii. p. 285; Quint., Inst. Or., lib. i. c. 11.