flamens

The Romans also, for many ages trained up only to a military roughness resembling most the Lacedaemonian guise, knew of learning little but what their twelve Tables, and the Pontific College with their augurs and flamens taught them in religion and law; so unacquainted with other learning, that when Carneades and

Areopagitica 2007

The Romans also, for many ages trained up only to a military roughness resembling most the Lacedaemonian guise, knew of learning little but what their twelve Tables, and the Pontific College with their augurs and flamens taught them in religion and law; so unacquainted with other learning, that when Carneades and

Areopagitica 2007

“He wished himself to be worshipped in temples, like the gods, with flamens and priests.”

Theologico-Political Treatise 2007

Peter might have been Jupiter again, surrounded by a procession of flamens and augurs, and Augustus as Pontifex Maximus, to inspect the sacrifices, — and my feelings at the spectacle had been, doubtless, pretty much the same.

The Newcomes 2006

A ring of butchers from the market was immediately formed; a couple of the reverend flamens, who, in morning gowns, ply for marriages in that quarter of the town, constituted themselves seconds and umpires of the approaching contest, and the battle began without further preparation.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

He forbad temples, flamens, or priests to be appointed for him, as likewise the erection of any statues or effigies for him, without his permission; and this he granted only on condition that they should not be placed amongst the images of the gods, but only amongst the ornaments of houses.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Amongst others, _Guy_ was a term by which, no doubt, the Druids were very early designated, and is cognate, with the Italian _Guido_ and our own _Guide_, to the Latin _cuidare_, which would give it great appropriativeness when applied to the offices of teachers and leaders, with which these lordly flamens were invested.

Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850 Various

Is it your wish that the family religious rites should not be intermitted even during war, but that the public rites and the Roman gods should be deserted even in time of peace, and that the pontiffs and flamens should be more negligent of public religious ceremonies, than a private individual in the anniversary rite of a particular family?

The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

Men felt the routine to be niggardly: but to-morrow -- as their priests and bonzes, their flamens and imauns, their medicine men and popes and rectors, were unanimous -- would be quite different.

The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions 1917

The Pope sent two teachers (whose names are given), who almost extinguished paganism over the whole island, dedicated the heathen temples to the true God, and substituted three archbishops for the three heathen archflamens at London, York, and Caerleon-on-Usk, and twenty-eight bishops for the twenty-eight heathen flamens.

Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures 1904