Lustratio was an ancient Greek and ancient Roman purification ritual. It included a procession and in some circumstances the sacrifice of a pig (sus)...

(ovis) and a bull (taurus) to the deity Mars to bless and purify land (Lustratio). There were two kinds: suovetaurilia lactentia ("suckling suovetaurilia")...

ages, which however, as we have seen, was not observed with regularity. Lustratio Decade Century Millennium Oxford Latin Desk Dictionary (2005). Oxford:...

Ceriales (Ceres' games). She was also honoured in the May lustration (lustratio) of the fields at the Ambarvalia festival: at harvesttime: and during...

of a propitiatory offering. The term is taken from the ancient Roman lustratio purification rituals. After the fall of the various European Communist...

repeats standardized scenes of imperial address (adlocutio), sacrifice (lustratio), and the army setting out on campaign (profectio). Scenes of battle are...

were ritually garlanded, led around the outer perimeter of the camp (a lustratio exercitus) and in through a gate, then sacrificed: Trajan's column shows...

Hebrews to the Greeks and Romans (particularly the purifying ceremony Lustratio), Egyptians (for example in the cult of Apis) and from the Aztecs to the...

Lupercalia. The most famous person to serve as a lupercus was Mark Antony. The lustratio is a ritual of purification that was held every five years under the jurisdiction...

Empire. A large frieze, known as Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus, showing a lustratio of a Roman army and a sea thiasus probably comes from this temple - it...

expiating human sacrifice. There is also no doubt a connection with the lustratio in that both rely on purification by the air.  One or more of the preceding...

Flamen Augur Quindecimviri sacris faciundis Epulones Animal sacrifice Lustratio October Horse Taurobolium Roman funerary practices Roman funerary art...

ceremonies connected with it were no longer performed, and the ceremony of the lustratio was not performed after the time of Vespasian. The jurists Paulus and...

was a common origin for the reliefs. Departure (Arch of Constantine) Lustratio (Arch of Constantine) Allocution (Arch of Constantine) Captives (Arch...

shown pointing toward the standards during lustrations. Although Latin lustratio is usually translated as "purification", lustral ceremonies should perhaps...

positions. The term lustration, "cleansing", stems from the Latin word lustratio, for a Roman purification ceremony. The first Polish lustration bill was...

follow. The poet sings a hymn celebrating a rural festival, probably the lustratio agri ("blessing of the farm"), taking on the role of a priest or vates...

ancient Roman festival for purifying the city; that is, a lustration (lustratio urbis). It took the form of a procession, perhaps along the old Servian...

unclear. In historical times, the Compitalia included a purification (lustratio) and the sacrifice of a pig who was first paraded around the city. Street...