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Vitta
(118 words)
[German version] Part of the diadem-like binding worn by Roman priests and priestesses, or part of cultic adornment.
Vittae are the woollen bands hanging on both sides behind the ears or the tassel-shaped ends or fringes.
Vitta is often used as a synonym for the whole woollen binding, the
infula (especially in poetry), but the relationship and difference (see above) between
infulae and
vittae are unambiguously clear [1. 1-3; 2. 292]. Siebert, Anne Viola (Hannover) Bibliography
1 U. Staffhorst, P. Ovidius Naso, Epistulae ex Ponto III 1-3, 1965
2 F. Bömer, O. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphosen vol. XV, 1986 (commentary) A. V. Siebert, Quellenanalytische Bemerkungen zu Haartracht und Kopfschmuck römischer P…
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Stips
(131 words)
[German version] Latin 'monetary contribution', 'donation', but also 'minted coin' (Fest. 379; 412). In the cult of the Latin West, a
stips is a monetary offering for a deity that was - like food and drink sacrifices (Sacrifice) and offerings of votive gifts - either placed on an altar or thrown into a special 'offertory box' (
Thesaurus ; Varro, Ling. 5,182). A
stips was 1) given for the benefit of the temple coffer; 2) submerged in water (e.g. Suet. Aug. 57); 3) buried (e.g. Tac. Ann. 4,53). Numerous inscriptions record this practice. R…
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Pulvinar
(127 words)
[German version] Latin for 'cushion' or 'bed'. The cult image of a god was placed on a
pulvinar during the foundation of a sanctuary and also later, on the anniversary of its foundation (
n
atalis templi ); according to Serv. Georg. 3,533, the word
pulvinar may also refer to the sanctuary itself. The
pulvinar played a crucial role in Roman c…
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Hasta
(1,030 words)
[German version] [1] Hasta, hastati In the Roman army of the middle Republic, the
hasta served primarily as a thrust lance for close combat although it could also be thrown; it had a wooden shaft and an iron point. The
hasta was adapted to the fighting style of the phalanx, but it remained in use when, in the 4th cent. BC, the Romans adopted a more flexible set-up in maniples (
manipulus ). According to Livy (Liv. 8,8,5-13), whose account, however, is not without its problems, in 340 BC the Roman army consisted of three battle rows, the
hastati, the
principes and the
triarii. The
triarii were a…
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Lituus
(180 words)
[German version] [1] Wooden or metal staff, symbol of office A wooden or metal staff ending in a crook or spiral, of Etruscan-Italic origin. Politically, it was originally a king's symbol of office (Serv. Aen. 7,187), later a symbol of imperial power and an emblem of the
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Immolatio
(950 words)
[German version] is the Latin term for the event of sacrifice, the sacrificial act, in contrast to the sacrificial offering (fruit, bread, wine) or the sacrificial animal (
hostia). Sacrifice was one of the simplest ways to express oneself towards a deity in the private and state cult of Rome. The Latin expression
immolatio describes this act; original meaning: sprinkling the sacrificial animal with salted sacrificial spelt (
immolare = sprinkle with sacrificial meal,
mola salsa; cf. Fest. 124 L.; Fest. 97 L. s.v.
immolare; Serv. Aen. 10,541).
Immolatio therefore denotes the act of…
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Piaculum
(367 words)
[German version] From Latin
piare =
pium reddere, 'cleanse', 'expiate' (Plaut. Men. 517; Varro, Ling. 6,30), later also 'reconcile' (Plaut. Asin. 506; Verg. Aen. 6,379).
Piaculum…
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Strena
(180 words)
[German version] Verdant branch(es), dates and figs, which in Rome were given as benedictions at the beginning of the year or arranged in front of the door of the house. A continuation of the Roman custom is the placing or exchanging of spring branches in front of the official residences of the
rex sacrorum and the
flamines , in front of the
Curia and the Temple of Vesta (Ov. Fast. 3,137-143; Macrob. Sat. 1,12,6). In the Republican period
strena signifies an omen for the new year (
omen novi anni), in the Imperial period
strena means the gifts that were exchanged to celebrate a new year …
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Turibulum
(72 words)
[German version] (from
tus, 'incense', also
thymiaterium). Roman portable metal apparatus on which grains of incense were burned in a Roman sacrifice. For pure incense or smoke sacrifices there was a small portable altar, called an
acerra or an
ara turicrema.
Acerra also seems (Val. Max. 3,3,3) to have been used as a synonym for a
turibulum. Sacrifice; Thymiaterion …
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Fanum
(262 words)
[German version] (Etymology: *dhh1s-no-; but Oscan-Umbrian fēsnā < stressed form *dheh1s- [1]). Generic expression for the holy place (
locus sacer, Liv. 10,37,15) consecrated to the deity by the
pontifices (Varro, Ling. 6,54; Fest. 78 L.;
pontifex ). Initially designating the location without regard f…
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Inauguratio
(234 words)
[German version] In the actual sense ‘the beginning’, cf. also
inaugurare: ‘employ auguries’, ‘question divinatory birds’; ‘consecrate’. In Roman religious law,
inauguratio is the priestly inauguration into office that has been applied from historically tangible time only for the
flamines maiores (
Dialis: Gai. Inst. 1,130; 3,114; Liv. 27,8,4; 41,28,7;
Martialis: Liv. 29,38,6; 45,15,10; Macrob. Sat. 3,13,11), the
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Licium
(351 words)
[German version] (literally ‘thread’, ‘string’, ‘ribbon’). In Roman cultic and magical use, the functions of the
licium are twofold: it connects or binds, and it encircles or closes something or someone. In its connecting or binding function it is used primarily in love spells (cf. Verg. Ecl. 8,73ff.). The
licium also serves to enclose the voting area at convocations of the people (Varro, Ling. 6,86-88, 93 and 95; Paul Fest. 100,11 L.). Ho…
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Sellisternium
(137 words)
[German version] Comparable with the Roman banquet of the gods called the
lectisternium. According to ancient table manners (men reclined on beds, women sat), at the
sellisternium statuettes of the goddesses were placed on
sellae (chairs, stools) and a meal was offered to them.
Sellisternia are particularly transmitted as a component of the
ludi saeculares (CIL VI 32323; 32329). Likewise they could be performed after omin…
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Supplicatio
(311 words)
[German version] ('Ceremony of supplication'or 'propitiation' or 'thanksgiving'). In Roman religion,
supplicatio denoted in the wider sense an offering of wine and incense (
ture ac vino supplicare), and in the narrower sense a ceremony of the commonwealth arranged by the authorities. Such
supplicationes were recommended in emergencies by the
quindecimviri sacris faciundis upon consulting the
Sibyllini libri , and by the
pontifices or the
haruspices , and were approved by the Senate. There was a distinction between
supplicationes of supplication and expiation on the one ha…
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Tubilustrium
(126 words)
[German version] Roman civic festival of the 'cleaning of the trumpets' (
tubi or
tubae), which was celebrated on 23 March and 23 May. The March date was considered as
feriae (holiday) for Mars (InscrIt 13,2,104; 123), the May date as
feriae for Volcanus (InscrIt 13,2, 57 and 187). The doubling of the tubilustrium in May is still unclear (but see [1. 219-221]). During these days, the trumpets were cleaned in the Atrium Sutorium and then used for cultic activities (
sacra: Varro, Ling. 6,14; cf. InscrIt 13,2, 123; Fest. 480
et passim) -- according to modern interpretation for summoning…
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Suovetaurilia
(272 words)
[German version] also
Suovitaurilia. The combination, traditional in Roman religion, of three sacrificial animals - pig (
sus), sheep (
ovis) and bull (
taurus) - that were led, as part of ritual purification (Lustratio), round a place (e.g. a piece of land: Cato Agr. 141; [1. 103-125]) or group of people to be lustrated, and subsequently sacrificed. A distinction was made between
suovetaurilia lactentia or
minora (piglet, l…
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