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- noun historical A
festival inAncient Rome , celebrated inApril for thegrain goddess Ceres .
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Examples
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Perhaps because he’s the wisest or ablest or perhaps because he’s the most noble soul in Cerealia, the old sailor named Cap’n Crunch has stepped up to lead the fight against Count Chocula’s forces of darkness.
Waldo Jaquith - Better cereal, less advertising targeting kids. 2007
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There’s trouble brewing in Cerealia, a land eternally bathed in morning sunlight.
Waldo Jaquith - Better cereal, less advertising targeting kids. 2007
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This is old and I've linked to it before, but someone reminded me recently about this awesome story about Cap'n Crunch and Tony the Tiger's doing what they can to keep Count Chocula and his evil cronies from trying to take over Cerealia.
Archive 2008-12-01 Michael May 2008
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This is old and I've linked to it before, but someone reminded me recently about this awesome story about Cap'n Crunch and Tony the Tiger's doing what they can to keep Count Chocula and his evil cronies from trying to take over Cerealia.
Breakfast of the Gods Michael May 2008
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It seems to me that this idea of the manufacture of indigo being especially inimical to human life, is as unfounded as the belief, even by Humboldt, up to a very recent period, that none of the Cerealia would grow in tropical climates.
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The _bearded_ wheat, or _triticum_, not the _siligo_, or common wheat of our English culture, was the plant which, whenever the attributes of Ceres were to be represented on ancient coins, was selected for that purpose; but the Lucchese territory, where the _Cerealia_ in general abound, offers few specimens of either kind.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various
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The variant AGER (_TM2I2_) for _amor_ was clearly induced by such passages as Tib II vi 21-22 'spes sulcis credit aratis/semina quae magno _faenore_ reddat _ager_', _RA_ 173-74 'obrue uersata Cerealia semina terra,/quae tibi cum multo _faenore_ reddat _ager_', and _EP_ I
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Cerealia (18th April), when my friend Curio meets me on his way from
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The Cerealia, or festivals in honour of Ceres, commenced on the 12th of
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens
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The people in that part of the world forgot to celebrate the Cerealia, and Triptolemus paid them with a harvest not worth the gathering.
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