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Alexander KUZNETSOV (Moscow) Titulus Aemilii Regilli reconsidered Livy (40.52) cites a laudatory inscription put over the doors of the shrine of Lares Permarini vowed by L. Aemilius Regillus in 190 and dedicated in 179 BCE. A copy placed in a temple of Iuppiter in Capitolio is presumed to be a source for an exemplary saturnian (Ps.-Bassus 6.265.25 Keil), and it is generally believed that the Regillus’ Titulus was in saturnian. Three variants of the starting words are to be considered: the manuscript text of Livy: duello magno regibus dirimendo caput subigendis patrandae pacis ...; the saturnian: | duello magno dirimendo regibus subigendis |, upon which the doctored saturnian text of Gottfried Hermann is founded: | duéllo magno dirimúndo, régibus subigúndis | capút, patrandae páci,... The last became a starting point for various emendations. I argue that the saturnian is unreliable and that the Titulus Aemilii was a prose text influenced both by early Roman eloquence and the poetical diction. As far as the saturnian is concerned, it is a forgery made from the genuine stuff of the prose text. Three other ‘triumphal saturnians’ cited by the grammarians (Ps.-Bass. 6.265.29, Fortunat. 6.294.1 = Diomed. 1.512.20, Ps.-Censorin. 6.615.8) appear to be of similar origin.