Carmen Arvale

[1] The Arval priests were devoted to the goddess Dia, and offered sacrifices to her to ensure the fertility of ploughed fields (Latin arvum).

[2] One of its interpretations goes as follows:[note 1] While passages of this text are obscure, the traditional interpretation makes the chant a prayer to seek aid of Mars and the Lares (lases), beseeching Mars not to let plagues or disasters overtake in the fields, asking him to be satiated, and dance, and call forth the "Semones", who may represent sacred sowers.

Semones are minor tutelary deities, in particular Sancus, Priapus, Faunus, all Vertumni, all Silvani, Bona Dea.

[5] The semones are probably the hidden life forces residing in seeds: they were presented as only offering milk in the earliest tradition.

[6] limen sali, sta means "jump over the beam of the threshold/door/lintel, stand" in standard Latin.