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    Ambarvalia was a Roman agricultural fertility rite, involving animal sacrifices and held on 29 May in honor of Ceres, Bacchus and Dea Dia. However, the...
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    sometimes with her Greek equivalent Demeter. She was worshiped during Ambarvalia, a festival to Ceres. Every May, her priests, the Fratres Arvales, held...
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    also honoured in the May lustration (lustratio) of the fields at the Ambarvalia festival: at harvest-time: and during Roman marriages and funeral rites...
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  • to May 3 under the Empire The feriae conceptivae of this month was the Ambarvalia. 1 (Kalends): Games of Flora continue; sacrifice to Maia; anniversary...
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    Their duties included ritual propitiations or thanksgivings such as the Ambarvalia, the sacrifices done at the borders of Rome at the fifth mile of the Via...
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    on May 1, Argei fell on May 14 or May 15, Agonalia fell on May 21, and Ambarvalia on May 29. Floralia was held April 27 during the Republican era, or April...
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    life, even if disgraced or exiled. Their most important festival, the Ambarvalia, occurred during the month of May, in a grove dedicated to Dia. The Carmen...
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    private rural suovetaurilia was sacrificed each May on the festival of Ambarvalia, a festival that involved "walking around the fields." Public suovetaurilias...
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    overshadowed by the popular piety of the Church. Such were those of the Ambarvalia, Robigalia, which were essentially rustic festivals, lustrations of the...
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  • course - Altar - Altar boy - Altar rails - Altar server - Amazing Grace - Ambarvalia - Amish - Amitābha - Anabaptist - Anathema - Anatta - Ancestor-worship...
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    most ancient holidays, becoming part of the calendar before 509 BC. The Ambarvalia, a "moveable feast" (feriae conceptivae) involving the lustration of the...
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    with poems from his time as student and tutor, in the shared publication Ambarvalia. In 1849, he witnessed another revolution, the siege of the Roman Republic...
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    back to an Ancient Roman spring festival, perhaps Cerealia, Floralia or Ambarvalia, although the details depicted in the painting do not correspond to any...
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    rite" when needed. The Amburbium can be hard to distinguish from the Ambarvalia in ancient sources, either because it was a similar set of ritual procedures...
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  • orchestra, Op. 41 (1953) Pageant Overture The Rainbow, Op. 44 (1954) Ambarvalia for small orchestra, Op. 70 (1988) Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 34 (1948)...
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    Niigata, Japan 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967 Spectrum (1925) Ambarvalia (1933) No Traveler Returns (1947) Modern Fables (1953) Naoshirō Tsuji...
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  • notorious for doing exactly this. The festival is sometimes said to be the Ambarvalia. However, there appears to be insufficient evidence to link Tibullus's...
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    1916 Alketon Fennah, 1975 Aloha Kirkaldy, 1904 Altekon Fennah, 1975 Ambarvalia (planthopper) Distant, 1917 Amblycotis Stål, 1853 Ampliphax Bartlett &...
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    to an Ancient Roman spring festival, perhaps Cerealia or Floralia or Ambarvalia, although the details depicted in the painting do not correspond to any...
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    Fratres Arvales, performers of the agricultural propitiary rite of the Ambarvalia, and bestows wealth on her heirs and figurative children. Her story hints...
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    Voyage à Cythère (CXLI. Un Voyage à Cythère) (My) Vultures Come to the Ambarvalia (1971) The Waning Moon (1976) Warning (3 Mar 1928) Water-Fight (1971)...
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  • leader of the new contemporary poetry movement. In 1933, he published Ambarvalia, a collection which gathered together the previous experiments and efforts...
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  • 2011 Akilas Distant, 1916 Aloha Kirkaldy, 1904 Altekon Fennah, 1975 Ambarvalia Distant, 1917 Amblycotis Stål, 1853 Anchidelphax Fennah, 1965 Anchodelphax...
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  • in three parts, 1848–1849 Edward Caswall, Lyra Catholica A. H. Clough, Ambarvalia Robert Southey, all posthumously published: Southey's Common-place Book:...
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