Quinquatria
Quinquatria | |
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Also called | Quinquatrus |
Observed by | 19 March |
In
Ovid says that this festival was celebrated in commemoration of the birthday of Minerva; but according to Festus it was sacred to Minerva because her temple on the Aventine was consecrated on that day. On the fifth day of the festival, according to Ovid,[4] the trumpets used in sacred rites were purified; but this seems to have been originally a separate festival called Tubilustrium, which ancient calendars place on 23 March. When the celebration of Quinquatrus was extended to five days, the Tubilustrium would have fallen on the last day of that festival.
As this festival was sacred to Minerva, it seems that
There was also another festival of this name called Quinquatrus Minusculae or Quinquatrus Minores, celebrated on the Ides of June, on which the tibicines went through the city in procession to the temple of Minerva.
Historical significance
At the Quinquatria in 59,
Notes
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. London: John Murray.)
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(help) - Bury, John Bagnell. The Student's Roman Empire. Harper. 1893.