Cicero definitely states that men pray silently to the gods, but he does not tell us the sort of prayers thus offered. 21 Horace, however, sheds some light on the question where he satirizes the man whom the people believe to be good, who sacrifices a pig or an ox and cries to Janus and to Apollo that all may hear, but in an undervoice prays to Laverna, the goddess of theft, that he may be able to