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ARGEI , the name given by the See also:ancient See also:Romans to a number of See also:rush puppets (24 or 27 according to the See also:reading of See also:Varro, de See also:Ling. dal. vu. 44, or 30 according to See also:Dionysius 38) resembling men tied See also:hand and See also:foot, which were taken down to the ancient See also:bridge over the See also:Tiber (pans sublicius) on the 14th of May by the pontifices and magistrates, with the flaminica Dialis in See also:mourning See also:guise, and there thrown into the Tiber by the Vestal virgins. There were also in various parts of the four Servian regions of the See also:city a number of sacella Argeorum (chapels), See also:round which a procession seems to have gone on the 17th of,See also:March (Varro, L.L. v. 46-54; See also:Jordan, Rom. Topogr. vol. ii. 603), and it has been conjectured that the puppets were kept in these chapels until the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time came for them to be See also:cast into the See also:river. The Romans had no See also:historical explanation of these curious See also:rites, and neither the theories of their scholars nor the beliefs of the See also:common See also:people, who fancied that the puppets were substitutes for old men who used at one time to be sacrificed to the river, are See also:worth serious See also:consideration. Recently two explanations have been given: (1) that of W. Mannhardt, who by comparing numerous examples of similar customs among other See also:European peoples arrived at the conclusion that the rite was of extreme antiquity and of dramatic rather than sacrificial See also:character, and that its See also:object was possibly to procure See also:rain; (2) that of Wissowa, who refuses to date it farther back than the latter See also:half of the 3rd See also:century n.c., and See also:sees in it the yearly See also:representation of an See also:original See also:sacrifice of twenty-seven See also:captive Greeks (taking Argei as a Latin See also:form of 'Apyei'ot) by drowning in the Tiber. This second theory is, however, not See also:borne out by any See also:Roman historical See also:record.
See Wissowa's arguments in the See also:article " Argei " in his edition of Pauly's Realencyclopadie. For the other view see W. Mannhardt, Antike Wald and Feldkulte, 178 See also:foil. ; W. W. See also:Fowler, Roman Festivals, pp. u l foil. (W. W.
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