Compitalia
The Compitalia (
This festival is more ancient than the building of
During the celebration of the festival, each family placed the statue of the
The people who presided over the festival were
During the
The Compitalia belonged to the
Die noni popolo romano quiritibus compitalia erunt.
Suetonius writes that Augustus ordered the Lares Compitales crowned twice yearly with spring and summer flowers ("Compitales Lares ornari bis anno instituit vernis floribus et aestivis").[18][19]
References
Citations
- ^ "Compital". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ "Compita", Varro, De lingua latina libri XXV, ed. Müller; Festus, s.v.
- ^ Pliny, Natural History, xxxvi.(70).204
- ^ a b Roman Antiquities, iv.14
- ^ a b c Cyclopaedia, vol 1, p 288.
- ^ Saturnalia i.7
- ^ Asconius, ad Cic. in Pis. p7, ed. Orelli
- ^ Cicero, In Pisonem, 8 Archived 2020-10-26 at the Wayback Machine; Ascon. l.c.
- ^ Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, ii.3 Archived 2020-10-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Suetonius, Life of Augustus, 31; comp. Ovid, Fasti, v.128-148
- Scholiast on Horace, ad Sat. ii.3.261
- ^ These Augustales are not the same as the Augustales appointed to attend to the worship of Augustus after his death, according to A.W. Zumpt, De Augustalibus et Seviris Augustalibus commentatio epigraphica, Berol. 1846
- ^ In Pisonem. 4
- ^ Epistulae ad Atticum, vii.7
- ^ The Nones are on 5 January, and including that day when counting backwards gives January 2.
- ^ Saturnalia i.4.27
- ^ Noctes Atticae, x.24
- ^ Suetonius Augustus 31.4
- ISBN 978-0-521-82827-7.
Bibliography
- Smith, William, D.C.L., LL.D. "Compitalia". A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. John Murray, London, 1875.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "Compitalitia". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al. p. 288.
- "Compital". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd ed. 1989.