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- The Roman festival of Larentalia was held on 23 December but was ordered to be observed twice a year by Augustus; by some supposed to be in honour of the...
- later a goddess of fertility, in Roman mythology whose festival, the Larentalia, was celebrated on December 23. In one mythological tradition (that of...
- rape her. In this guise, Dea Tacita was worshipped at a festival called Larentalia on 23 December. Goddesses Mutae Tacitae were invoked to destroy a hated...
- Opiconsivia was held on December 19, Divalia was held on December 21, Larentalia was held on December 23, and the dies natalis of Sol Invictus was held...
- Ceres, Pales and Genius Iovialis and the statement in Macrobius that the Larentalia were dedicated to Jupiter as the god whence the souls of men come from...
- festivals, the Consualia Aestiva on August 21, Robigalia on April 25, and Larentalia on December 23. Beside these festivals that of Quirinus himself, the Quirinalia...
- also sometimes ****ociated with Acca Larentia whose feast day was the Larentalia on December 23. Ovid, Fasti 2, V. 599. Lactantius, The Divine Institutions...
- sacrifice and its abolition, the Junii celebrated their ancestor cult during Larentalia rather than the usual Parentalia even in the 1st century BC; see Taylor...
- gens could serve, and be served by, the cults attached to Compitalia and Larentalia. Mommsen's contention that Lares were originally field deities is not...
- Acca Larentia, a diva of complex meaning and origin in whose honor the Larentalia was held. Acis, god of the Acis River in Sicily. Aerecura, goddess possibly...