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<p> (Lat. ambiendis arvis, "going around the fields"), a ceremony performed among the ancient Romans with a view of procuring from the gods a plentiful harvest. A sacrifice was offered to Ceres, but before doing so the victims, consisting of a sow, a sheep, and a bull, were led amid a vast concourse of peasants around the cornfields in procession. The ceremony was sometimes private and managed by the master of a family, and sometimes public and performed by priests, who were called fratres arvales, or field brothers. This festival was held twice in the year-the first time either in January or April, the second time in July. (See [[Suovetaurilia]]). </p> | <p> (Lat. ambiendis arvis, "going around the fields"), a ceremony performed among the ancient Romans with a view of procuring from the gods a plentiful harvest. A sacrifice was offered to Ceres, but before doing so the victims, consisting of a sow, a sheep, and a bull, were led amid a vast concourse of peasants around the cornfields in procession. The ceremony was sometimes private and managed by the master of a family, and sometimes public and performed by priests, who were called fratres arvales, or field brothers. This festival was held twice in the year-the first time either in January or April, the second time in July. (See [[Suovetaurilia]]). </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_19391"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/ambarvalia Ambarvalia from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_19391"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/ambarvalia Ambarvalia from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 07:48, 15 October 2021
Ambarvalia [1]
(Lat. ambiendis arvis, "going around the fields"), a ceremony performed among the ancient Romans with a view of procuring from the gods a plentiful harvest. A sacrifice was offered to Ceres, but before doing so the victims, consisting of a sow, a sheep, and a bull, were led amid a vast concourse of peasants around the cornfields in procession. The ceremony was sometimes private and managed by the master of a family, and sometimes public and performed by priests, who were called fratres arvales, or field brothers. This festival was held twice in the year-the first time either in January or April, the second time in July. (See Suovetaurilia).
