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

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Caristia

or Charistia. A Roman family celebration held on February 22 (viii. Kal. Mart. ) following the Dies Parentales (February 13-21) and the Feralia (February 21), which days were sacred to the dead. The feast was a thanksgiving for the survivors. None but relatives were invited, and on this occasion quarrels and misunderstandings were ended; whence some derive the word Caristia from χαρίζομαι, but the better-approved spelling is against this view, and Ovid regards the word as connected with carus (Ovid, Fast. ii. 617).

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

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