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I believe that he gained admittance through the slaves of the familia, who had no part in the worship of the dwelling, but were admitted to the Compitalia, or yearly festival of which the Lares of the compita were the central object.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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C. ille dat, ut primas Cereri dare cultor aristas possit et intacto Bromium perfundere uino, ut nudus ruptas saliat calcator in uuas utque bono plaudat paganica turba magistro, 125 qui facit egregios ad peruia compita ludos.
A Singing Match Calpurnius 1912
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That the Compitalia was an old Latin festival is undoubted; but as we are uncertain about the exact nature of the earliest form of landholding, we cannot be sure about the nature of the compita in remote antiquity.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Kalends, Nones and Ides, and to pray to the Lar familiaris pro copia (at the compita?).
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Praemiaque ipgeniis pagos et compita circum Thefidae pofuere, atque inter pocula laeti Mollibus in pratis undos faluere per utres.
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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Quis circum pagos et circum compita pugnax Magna coronari contemnat Olympia, cui fpes, £0.
The Works of Horace 1780
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Ab Jove Mufarum primordia: femper tn ore uurit Vlurimus ille bominum eji, qui compita numine magno,
De veritate religionis christianæ Hugo Grotius, Jean Le Clerc, 1657-1736 1772
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_compita_ -- places where two or more properties marched.
The Religion of Ancient Rome Cyril Bailey 1914
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aestiferum suadens anticipare diem. errabam riguis per quadrua compita in hortis5
'Gather ye Rosebuds' pseudo-Ausonius 1912
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But if you look hard, you can always see the gaps where the big roads cross, the compita like we’ve got outside these here premises.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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