Robigalia
robigalia festival ancient roman religion held april named god robigus main ritual dog sacrifice protect grain field disease game ludi form major minor race held robigalia one several agricultural festival april celebrate vitalize growing season darker sacrificial element occasion also fraught anxiety crop failure dependence divine favor avert robigalia held boundary ager romanus verrius flaccus site grove lucus fifth milestone rome along via claudia celebration included game ludi sacrificial offering blood entrails unweaned puppy catulus animal sacrifice public religion ancient rome resulted communal meal thus involved domestic animal whose flesh normal part roman diet dog occurs victim often magic private rite hecate chthonic deity offered publicly lupercalia two sacrifice pertaining grain crop like many aspect roman law religion institution robigalia attributed sabine numa pompilius eleventh year reign second king rome combined presence numa flamen quirinalis high priest quirinus sabine god war become identified mar may suggest sabine origin late republican scholar varro say robigalia named god robigus numen personification agricultural disease could also prevent thus potentially malignant deity propitiated aulus gellius note gender deity elusive agricultural writer columella give name feminine robigo like word used form disease wheat rust reddish reddishbrown color robigus robigo also found rubig following etymologybyassociation antiquity thought connected color red ruber form homeopathic sympathetic magic color thematic disease red requisite puppy sometimes bitch red coat red blood recall distinctively roman incarnation mar god agriculture bloodshed william warde fowler whose work roman festival remains standard reference entertained idea robigus indigitation mar name used prayer formulary fix local action invoked god support idea priest presided flamen quirinalis ludi held mar robigo flamen recited prayer ovid quote length fasti sixbook calendar poem roman holiday provides extended though problematic description day chariot race ludi cursoribus held honor mar robigo day race two class major minor may represent junior senior division chariot racing younger driver seem gained experience twohorse chariot biga graduating fourhorse team quadriga horse chariot race honor mar occurred equirria sacrifice october horse fasti praenestini also record day festival celebrated particular class sex worker pimpedout boy following previous day recognition meretrices female prostitute regarded professional standing april festival related farming cerealia festival cere lasting several day midmonth fordicidia april pregnant cow sacrificed parilia april ensure healthy flock vinalia wine festival april varro considered robigalia along great mother megalensia late month original roman holiday april robigalia connected christian feast rogation concerned purifying blessing parish field took place robigalia april christian calendar church father tertullian mock goddess robigo made fiction alessandro locchi “lucus robiginis acqua traversa” un antichissimo culto al v miglio della via clodia emergenze storicoarcheologiche di un settore del suburbio di rom la tenuta dell’acqua traversa atti della giornata di studio rom giugno cura di f vistoli rom pp – fabrizio vistoli nota di aggiornamento critico e bibliografico sui robigalia la parola del passato lxiv ccclxiv pp – video modern festival robigalia piauí brazil