Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Suovetaurilia

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A Roman sacrifice, consisting of a boar (sus), a ram (ovis), and a bullock (taurus), which was offered in nearly all cases of lustration.

Suovetaurilia. (Bartoli.)

For female deities the female animal, and on certain occasions young animals, were selected. See Lustratio; Lustrum; Sacrificium.

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

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Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)