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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 600 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PALES , an old See also:

ITALIAN

Italian goddess of flocks and shepherds. The festival called Parilia (less correctly Palilia) was celebrated in her See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour at See also:

Rome and in the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country on the 21st of See also:

APRIL

April. In this festival Pales was invoked to See also:

grant See also:

PROTECTION

protection and increase to flocks and herds; the shepherds entreated forgiveness for any unintentional profanation of See also:

HOLY

holy places of which their flocks might have been guilty, and leaped three times across bonfires of See also:

hay and See also:

STRAW

straw (See also:

OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid, See also:

FASTI

Fasti, iv. 731–805). The Parilia was not only a herdsmen's festival, but was regarded as the birthday celebration of Rome, which was supposed to have been founded on the same See also:

day. Pales plays a very sub-See also:

ORDINATE

ordinate See also:

PART

part in the See also:

religion of Rome, even the See also:

SEX (Lat. sexes; possibly connected with secure, to cut)

sex of the divinity being uncertain. A male Pales was sometimes spoken of, corresponding in some respects to See also:

Pan; the See also:

FEMALE

female Pales was associated with See also:

VESTA (Gr. 'Errata)

Vesta and See also:

Anna Perenna.

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