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AMBARVALIA

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AMBARVALIA , an See also:

annual festival of the See also:ancient See also:Romans, occurring in May, usually on the 29th, the See also:object of which was to secure the growing crops against harm of all kinds. The priests were the Arval See also:Brothers (q.v.), who conducted the victims—ox, See also:sheep and See also:pig (suovetaurilia)—in procession with See also:prayer to See also:Ceres See also:round the boundaries of the ager See also:Romanus. As the extent of See also:Roman See also:land increased, this could no longer be done, and in the Acta of the Fratres, which date from See also:Augustus, we do not find this procession mentioned (Henzen, Acta Fratrum Arvalium, 1874); but there is a See also:good description of this or a similar rite in See also:Virgil, Georg. i. 338 if., and in See also:Cato's See also:work de Re Rustica (141) we have full details and the See also:text of the prayers used by the Latin See also:farmer in thus " lustrating " his own land. In this last See also:case the See also:god invoked is See also:Mars. The See also:Christian festival which seems to have taken the See also:place of these ceremonies is the Rogation or Gang See also:week of the Roman See also:Church. The perambulation or beating of See also:bounds is probably a survival of the same type of rite. See W. W. See also:Fowler, Roman Festivals (1899), p. 124 if. (W.

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