• The Feriae Latinae or Latin Festival was an ancient Roman religious festival held in April on the Alban Mount. The date varied, and was determined and...
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    last Roman king Tarquin the Proud under the leadership of Rome. The feriae Latinae, or Latiar as they were known originally, were the common festival (panegyris)...
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  • purify the city (urbs) as a whole, perhaps held sometime in February. Feriae Latinae (Latin Festival), a major and very old conceptivae in April. Ambarvalia...
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    with the cultivation of the soil (Virgil, Georgics ii.382-396). The Feriae Latinae; in this case games were played, among them swinging (oscillatio); cf...
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  • (Monte Cavo) to worship Iuppiter Latiaris. The festival was known as Feriae Latinae. The major custom in this ceremony was a great banquet, which required...
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  • from mid-to-late April, but exact dates are still being determined. Feriae Latinae was also held in April, with the date varying. Other ancient Roman observances...
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    villages are recorded. The ritual of this league was the "Latin festival" (feriae Latinae), at which, on the Mount of Alba, upon a day annually appointed by the...
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    custom which eventually led to the annual celebration there of the Feriae Latinae, at which all the cities that belonged to the Latin Confederation would...
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    republican era who guarded the city during the annual sacrifice of the Feriae Latinae on Mount Alban in which the consuls participated. His former title was...
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    daughters, Ceionia Fabia. Marcus was made prefect of the city during the feriae Latinae soon after (he was probably appointed by Commodus). Although the office...
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    Their most important common tribal event was the four-day Latiar or Feriae Latinae ("Latin Festival"), held each winter on the sacred mons Albanus (Monte...
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    officials, and aides. They also assisted religious affairs especially the Feriae Latinae, formed a collegium dedicated to managing the streets, and had a centuriate...
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    sanctuary of Jupiter Latiaris, in which the consuls celebrated the Feriae Latinae, and several generals celebrated victories here during times when they...
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    provide the theological justification for the 30 populi Albenses of the feriae Latinae (the 30 fortified boroughs supposedly founded by Aeneas at Lavinium)...
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    unlimited. In domestic affairs they were responsible for holding the annual feriae Latinae (a spring festival), receiving embassies from foreign states, conducting...
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    Julius Caesar, is said to have gone to Mount Alba to preside over the Feriae Latinae, Latin rites originally celebrated by the kings of Alba Longa. This...
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  • officials, and aides. They also assisted religious affairs especially the Feriae Latinae, formed a collegium dedicated to managing the streets, and had a centuriate...
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    convened the senate. Among other business, he announced the date of the Feriae Latinae ("Latin Festival"), a moveable feast to be held in April and one of...
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    last Roman king Tarquin the Proud under the leadership of Rome. The feriae Latinae, or Latiar as they were known originally, were the common festival (panegyris)...
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    celebrate the triumph on the Alban Mount. Each year the temple hosted the Feriae Latinae, which lasted for four days and were attended by the representatives...
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  • to patricians or favored individuals. His service as prefect of the feriae Latinae preceded his term as quaestor, possibly attached to the Roman emperor...
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    [citation needed] "a.d. V Idus Augustas: Soli Indigeti in colle Quirinali Feriae quod eo die Gaius Caesar Gai filius Pharsali devicit" "August 9: Festival...
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  • First Punic War, Ogulnius was nominated dictator in order to hold the Feriae Latinae. Marcus Ogulnius, one of the ambassadors sent to Etruria in 210 BC,...
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  • Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), L, Latīnae Feriae, Lavīcum". Twelve Emperors by Suetonius. Julius Caesar, Chapter 83:...
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    indigitamenta is that of Panda and Cela, referring to Ceres. Cf. J. Bayet " "Feriae Sementiuae" et les Indigitations dans le culte de Ceres et de Tellus" in...
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  • praecidanea and the feriae succidaneae, though this is not explicated. Scholarly interpretations thus differ on what the feriae praecidaneae were: cf...
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