Quindecemviri

Consuls, the Senate, the Quindecemviri and other colleges of priests, then followed the Vestal Virgins, and a group of one hundred and ten matrons (as many as there were years in the _sæculum_) selected from among the most exemplary _matres familiæ_ above twenty-five years of age.

Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888

Lines 1-23 contain a letter from Augustus to the Quindecemviri detailing the programme of the ceremonies, the number and quality of persons who shall take part in it, the dates and hours, and the number and character of the victims.

Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888

Quindecemviri, call for the celebration of the Secular games, 75.

Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888

The request was addressed to the Senate on February 17, by Marcus Agrippa, president of the Quindecemviri, standing before the seat of the consuls.

Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888

The games of which the Quindecemviri made this assertion were the Tarentini, instituted for quite a different purpose, but their suggestion was too pleasing to Augustus and the people to be despised.

Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888

_Quindecemviri sacris faciundis_ (a college of priests to whom the direction of these games had been intrusted from time immemorial) announced that it was the will of the gods that the _Ludi Sæculares_ should be performed, and misrepresenting and distorting events and dates, tried to prove that the festival had been held regularly at intervals of 110 years, which was supposed to be the length of a

Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888

The official report begins, or rather began (the first lines are missing), with the request presented by the Quindecemviri to the

Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888

Quindecemviri, in the official transactions which preceded, attended and followed the celebration, in the resolutions passed by the several bodies, in the proclamations addressed to the people, and in the arrangements for the festivities, which a mass of a million or more spectators was expected to attend, that a lesson in civic dignity could be learned from this report by modern governments and corporations.

Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888

Upon the receipt of this document the Quindecemviri meet and pass several resolutions: that the rules regarding the ceremonies shall be made known to the public by advertisement (_albo propositæ_); that the mornings of May 26, 27, and 28, shall be set apart for the

Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888

Quindecemviri, who were of course in charge of a ritual which had been ordered by a Sibylline oracle.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884