supplicatio

The two supplicationes were probably awarded for victories in two successive years, for a supplicatio was the compliment awarded for a successful campaign, and it is hardly probable that two such compliments would be paid to a general in one year for a single war against one tribe.

Was Christ Born in Bethlehem? 1851-1939 1898

[63] _In suppliciis_, 'in the worship of the gods;' for as it was customary, in worshipping, to fall down, the word _supplicium_ has this religious meaning, which also appears in _supplicatio_.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

One thing, however, I cannot put off: on the 15th of May the senate covered itself with glory by refusing Gabinius a _supplicatio_.

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is, however, not wholly impossible that two specially brilliant victories may have been gained in one year over the tribe, and that each was thought worthy of a supplicatio.

Was Christ Born in Bethlehem? 1851-1939 1898

A _lectisternium_ was ordered for Iuventas, [666] the deity of the young recruits, a _supplicatio_ for Hercules at one of his temples, and five special victims were ordered for

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

It may be that they had tried it even in earlier times; but anyhow, in the fourth and third centuries B.C. advantage was taken of the _pulvinaria_ to use them as stopping-places in the procession of a _supplicatio_, and the phrase becomes a common one in the annals, "supplicatio ad omnia pulvinaria indicta."

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

Then a _supplicatio_ was decreed, which was attended not only by the urban population, but by crowds from the country, and for three days the decemviri superintended a _lectisternium_ on a grand scale, such as had never been seen in Rome before, in which twelve deities in pairs, Roman and Greek indistinguishable from each other, were seen reclining on cushions.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

_Prodigia_ are reported as usual, but the remedy thought sufficient is only a single day's _supplicatio_ and a _sacrum novendiale_.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

It was not only that the State ordered a _supplicatio_ of three days thanksgiving; men and women alike took advantage of it to press in crowds to the temples, the materfamilias with her children, and in her finest robes: "cum omni solutae metu, perinde ac si debellatum foret, deis immortalibus grates agerent."

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

Sibylline books were not consulted, but Etruscan haruspices were called in, who simply ordered a _supplicatio_ of the new kind, at the

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884