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The Roman festivals of the period of the Republic:

an introduction to the study of the religion of the Romans (Google eBook)
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Macmillan and Co., limited, 1899 - Cults - 373 pages
  

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Page 234 - Ceterum nec cohibere parietibus deos neque in ullam humani oris speciem adsimulare ex magnitudine caelestium arbitrantur: lucos ac nemora consecrant deorumque nominibus appellant secretum illud, quod sola reverentia vident.
Page 48 - Mars," and as the ceremony took place on the day preceding the first full moon of the old Roman year (which began on the first of March), the skin-clad man must have represented the Mars of the past year, who was driven out at the beginning of a new one. Now Mars was originally not a god of war but of vegetation. For it was to Mars that the Roman husbandman prayed for the prosperity of his corn and his vines, his fruittrees and his copses; it was to Mars that the priestly college of the Arval Brothers,...
Page 128 - Parish-rights and liberties, to accompany him in his perambulation; and most did so: in which perambulation he would usually express more pleasant discourse than at other times, and would then always drop some loving and facetious observations to be remembered against the next year, especially...
Page 294 - ... et date paganis annua liba focis. placentur frugum matres, Tellusque Ceresque, farre suo gravidae visceribusque suis. officium commune Ceres et Terra tuentur : haec praebet causam frugibus, illa locum.
Page 125 - Baccho, 327 spumantibus. 334 plangit. terque novas circum felix eat hostia fruges, omnis quam chorus et socii comitentur ovantes, et Cererem clamore vocent in tecta ; neque ante falcem maturis quisquam supponat aristis, quam Cereri torta redimitus tempora quercu det motus incompositos et carmina dicat.
Page 149 - Maiis ad pridie idus Maias alternis diebus spicas adoreas in corbibus messuariis ponunt easque spicas ipsae virgines torrent, pinsunt, molunt atque ita molitum condunt.
Page 192 - Ille etiam exstincto miseratus Caesare Romam, Cum caput obscura nitidum ferrugine texit, Impiaque aeternam timuerunt saecula noctem. Tempore quamquam illo tellus quoque et aequora ponti Obscenaeque canes importunaeque volucres 470 Signa dabant.
Page 6 - Sed tamen — antiqui ne nescius ordinis erres — . primus, ut est, lani mensis et ante fuit; qui sequitur lanum, veteris fuit ultimus anni: tu quoque sacrorum, Termine, finis eras.
Page 184 - Lucum conlucare Romano more sic oportet. Porco piaculo facito, sic verba concipito : " Si deus, si dea es, quoium illud sacrum est, uti tibi ius est porco piaculo facere illiusce sacri coercendi ergo harumque rerum ergo, sive ego sive quis iussu meo fecerit, uti id recte factum siet, eius rei ergo te hoc porco piaculo...
Page 125 - In primis venerare deos, atque annua magnae sacra refer Cereri laetis operatus in herbis extremae sub casum hiemis, iam vere sereno.

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The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic: An Introduction ...
The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic: An Introduction to the Study of the Religion of the Romans Book by W. Warde Fowler; 1899.
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JSTOR: The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic: An ...
578 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY THE ROMAN FESTIVALS OF THE PERIOD OF THE REPUBLIC: an Introduction to the Study of the Religion of the Romans. ...
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The Calpurnii and Roman Family History: An Analysis of the Piso ...
Chrestomathy: Annual Review of Undergraduate Research at the College of Charleston. Volume 1, 2002: pp. 1-10. © 2002 by the College of Charleston, ...
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Taboo, Magic, Sprits: A Study of Primitive Elements in Roman ...
Taboo, Magic, Sprits: A Study of Primitive Elements in Roman Religion, at sacred-texts.com
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Sacred fire of Vesta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Johnston's Private Life of the Romans, Bibliography
Contents. INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1. The Family 2. Roman Names 3. Marriage and Women 4. Children and Education 5. Slaves and Dependents ...
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Roman Calendar
The Roman Calendar (revised). "Happy he who has passed his whole life mid his own fields, he of whose birth and old age the same house is witness. ...
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Human sacrifice in Ancient Rome
Human sacrifice in Ancient Rome by M. Horatius Piscinus. By the Late Republic the Romans came to be as horrified by the practice of human sacrifice as any ...
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The Leapers
Mars Coin Silver jpg. Now who will tell me why the Salii carry Mars’ Celestial weapons, and sing of Mamurius? Ovid, Fasti III ...
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The Roles of Patrician and Plebeian Women in Their Religion in the ...
Dr. Doug Burgess, Chair. Dr. Dale Schmitt. Dr. Jeff Gold. Keywords: Roman Women, Patrician Women, Plebeian Women,. Religion, Vestal Virgins, Republic ...
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