Tubilustrium
Tubilustrium
- C. Robert Phillips
Extract
Tubilustrium, Roman festival on 23 March and 23 May, whose ‘trumpet purification’ readied the army for war (fasti Praenestini; FestusGloss. Lat.442). Calendars added Q(uando) R(ex) C(omitiavit) F(as): the *rex sacrorum made a nefastus day into fastus (see fasti). Celebrated in the atrium Sutorium: Platner–Ashby 57, Ov.Subjects
- Roman Myth and Religion