The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic: An Introduction to the Study of the Religion of the Romans

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Macmillan, 1899 - 373 Seiten
 

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Seite 184 - 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.
Seite 20 - 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,...
Seite 97 - 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...
Seite 134 - 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 inmolando bonas preces precor, uti sies volens propitius mihi domo familiaeque meae liberisque meis ; harumce rerum ergo macte hoc porco piaculo inmolando esto.
Seite 95 - In primis venerare deos, atque annua magnae sacra refer Cereri laetis operatus in herbis extremae sub casum hiemis, iam vere sereno.
Seite 69 - Magna in sacris vocatur ; adsertionemque aestimationis suae etiam hinc colligunt quod sus praegnans ei mactatur, quae hostia propria est terrae.
Seite 190 - Vetus novum vinum bibo, veteri novo morbo medeor'. A quibus verbis etiam Meditrinae deae nomen conceptum, eiusque sacra Meditrinalia dicta sunt.
Seite 168 - Cum pollucere oportebit, sic facies: "lupiter dapalis, quod tibi fieri oportet in domo familia mea culignam vini dapi, eius rei ergo macte hac illace dape pollucenda esto" . Manus inter luito, postea vinum sumito: "lupiter dapalis, macte istace dape pollucenda esto , macte vino inferio esto.

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