The Equirria (also as Ecurria, from equicurria, "horse races") were two ancient Roman festivals of chariot racing, or perhaps horseback racing, held in...

Martius was originally the first month of the Roman calendar. February 27: Equirria, involving chariot or horse races; March 1: Mars's dies natalis ("birthday")...

Matronalia, celebrated on March 1, Junonalia, celebrated on March 7, Equirria, celebrated on March 14, Mamuralia, celebrated on either March 14 or March...

begin and end the military campaigning season. These festivals were the Equirria, the sacral chariot races held on February 27 and March 14, and on October...

and forgiveness 23: Terminalia, in honour of Terminus 24: Regifugium 27: Equirria, first of two horse-racing festivals to Mars In the old Roman calendar...

ceremony of the ancilia movere, developed through the month on the 14th with Equirria in the Campus Martius (and the rite of Mamurius Veturius marking the expulsion...

(quadriga). Other horse and chariot races in honor of Mars occurred at the Equirria and before the sacrifice of the October Horse. The Fasti Praenestini also...

established by Hadrian to commemorate the adoption of Antoninus Pius as Caesar 26 IV Kal. Mart. EN 27 III Kal. Mart. NP • EQUIRRIA 28 pridie Kalendas Martias C...

horse-racing festivals held in honor of Mars, the others being the two Equirria on February 27 and March 14. Two-horse chariot races (bigae) were held...

Cultor (Iovi Cultori) 14 pridie Idūs Martias (abbrev. prid. Id. Mart.) NP • EQUIRRIA, horse races in honor of Mars • Mamuralia 15 Idūs Martiae NP • Feriae Iovi...

March 14, but by Lydus on the Ides. The earliest extant calendars place an Equirria, one of the sacral chariot races in honor of Mars, on March 14. The festival...

significant to Roman culture. Livy describes a horse race called the second Equirria, which started on March 14. The winning horse was killed and sacrificed...

chariot races of the Equirria February 27, a feria on the Kalends of March (a day sacred also to his mother Juno), a second Equirria on March 14, his Agonalia...

Distant, 1911 c g Dawnarioides Dozier, 1929 c g Dysimia Muir, 1924 c g b Equirria Distant, 1917 c g Fescennia Stål, 1886 c Fordicidia Distant, 1917 c g Goneokara...

Regia to drip its blood on the sacred hearth of Rome. The races of the Equirria on February 27 and March 14, also celebrated for Mars, may have been held...

may have connections to Mars, who was associated with horses through his Equirria festivals and the ritual of the October Horse, as a patron of warrior youth...

Fabricius, 1803 c g Dysimia Muir, 1924 c g b Dysimiella Broomfield, 1985 c g Equirria Distant, 1917 c g Fescennia Stål, 1886 c Fordicidia Distant, 1917 c g Goneokara...