armilustrum

English

Noun

armilustrum

1. (Ancient Rome) A festival, in Ancient Rome, in honour of Mars, the god of war.
   • 1828, The History of Rome, volume 2, Talboys and Vincent:

     The nine days' sacred rite was then performed again, because a shower of stones had been seen to fall in the armilustrum.

   • 1849, Antonio Nibby, New Guide of Rome and the Environs:

     In the times of the kings and of the republic it was covered with sumptuous edifices, the armilustrum, the temples of Diana, Juno Regina, Dea bona, Minerva, the atrium of Liberty, the palaces of Sura, of Trajan and the thermæ of Decius.

   • 1869, A Handbook of Rome and its Environs:

     S. Alessio, on the Aventine, supposed to mark the site of the Armilustrum, where Plutarch tells us that Tatius was interred.

   • 1892, S. Russell Forbes, Rambles in Rome‎^[1]:

     Beyond, on the left, is the CHURCH OF S. ALEXIUS, on the site of the Armilustrum, where the Sabine king, Titus Tatius, was buried.

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• Italian: armilustro m