Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, Ageorgiou Diké, Agonalia, Agonia

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Agonalia, Agonia

or Agonāles. A name derived from the old Latin agonia, a victim, and given to four festivals in the Roman calendar.

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A sacrifice to Ianus, on the 9th of January.

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A sacrifice by the Salii (q.v.) to Mars or Quirinus, on the 17th of March.

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A sacrifice to Veiovis (q.v.), on the 21st of May.

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A feast called Septimontium, held on the 11th of December, when a victim was offered on each of the seven hills of Rome. See Huschke, Das alte röm. Jahr (1869).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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