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from The Century Dictionary.
- In Roman antiquity, a double festival, celebrated on April 22d and on August 19th, at which an offering of wine from the vintage of the preceding autumn was made to Jupiter.
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That is to say, openly to attack you, whose party they have already abandoned.] [Footnote 55: There were two wine feasts, Vinalia, at Rome: the vinalia urbano, celebrated on the twenty-third of April; and the vinalia rustica, on the nineteenth of October.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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This was the urbana vinalia; on which occasion the wine casks which had been filled in the autumn were tasted for the first time.] [Footnote 56: There is much dispute as to who is meant here.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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