Cyclopædia
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ANGERONALIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANGERONALIA
held by the Romans, on the 21st of December, in honour of Angerona, or Angeronia, the Goddess of Patience and Silence. See FESTUS. Festus and Julius Modestus, quoted by Macrobius, Saturnalia, Lib. I, c. 10, derive the Name from Angina, Squinancy; and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ARGEAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ARGEA
of rushes, thrown annually by the Vestals into the river Tiber, on the Ides of May. See VESTAL. This ceremony we learn from Festus and Varro; the latter of whom, however, says they were cast by the priests: Unless, by Sacerdotibus, we suppose he meant...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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AMBURBIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AMBURBIA
have Amburbiales Victime, the Victims carried along in the Procession; and afterwards sacrificed. Scaliger, in his Notes on Festus, maintains the Amburbia to be the same with Ambarvalia. See AMBARVALIA. AMBURBIA
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ABORIGINEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ABORIGINES
I wander here and there ; and maintains, that they were the Scythians who came and settled in Italy. To this Sentiment Festus adheres. 2d, S. Jerom says, they were called Aborigines, as having no beginning ; of ab, and origo, original ; i. e. as being...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geography
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ANTHESPHORIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANTHESPHORIA
and φέρω, I carry, in regard that Goddess was forced away by Pluto, when she was gathering Flowers in the Fields. Yet Festus does not ascribe the Feast to Proserpina; but says it was thus called, by reason Ears of Corn were carried on this Day to the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology