Abstract
This article considers the description at Horace Odes 4.1.25–28 of a chorus of boys and girls dancing “in the manner of the Salii.” In this image of a double chorus of boys and girls dancing the Salian tripudium , Horace connects a feature he associates with the paean, a Greek genre of poetry, to the equally ancient but culturally Roman dance of the Salii. Horace is able to produce this particular vision of a hybrid performance because of certain homologies that obtain between paeanic and Salian performances. In so doing, Horace formulates his own idiosyncratic relationship with Greek precedent and simultaneously responds to other ancient perceptions of the Salii, including those of Vergil.
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