 The Saturnalia or festival of Saturn, was the most celebrated in the Roman Calendar. It took place in the month of December, beginning on the .7th and lasting for several days. At first it was for one day, afterward for three, (which was the case in Cicero's...  Select Orations - Page 201by Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1842Full view - About this book
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1816 - 360 pages
...danger of being quite hemmed in by * At this festival of Saturn, which took place annually on Dec. 17, all orders were devoted to mirth and feasting, friends sent presents to one another, and masters treated their slaves upon an equal footing (See Hor. Sat. II. vii.) at first for one day, and... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1819 - 538 pages
...finding it without a commander. 3° At this festival of Saturn, which took plaee annually on Dec. 17, all orders were devoted to mirth and feasting, friends sent presents to one another, and masters treated their slaves upon an equal footing (See Hor. Sat. II. vii.)> at first for one day,... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Rome - 1819 - 578 pages
...17th, (xvi. KaL Jan.) SATURNALIA, the feasts of Saturn, the most celebrated of the whole year, when all orders were devoted to mirth and feasting ; friends sent presents to one another, Suet. Aug. 75. Vesp. 19. Slat. Silv. vi. 9. and masters treated their slaves as if upon an equal footing;... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Rome - 1819 - 602 pages
...17th (xvi. kal. Jan.), SATURNALIA, the feasts of Saturn, the most celebrated of the whole year, when all orders were devoted to mirth and feasting, friends sent presents to one another, Suet. Aug. 75. Vcsp. 19. Stat. Silv. vi. 9., and masters treated their slaves upon an equal footing,... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Rome - 1819 - 572 pages
...17th, (xvi. Kal. Jan.} SATURNALIA, the feasts of Saturn, the most celebrated of the whole year, when all orders were devoted to mirth and feasting ; friends sent presents to • me another, Suet. Aug. 75. Vesp. 19. Stat. Silt. vi. 9. and inasrers treated their slaves as if... | |
 | C. Irving - Great Britain - 1822 - 304 pages
...the whole year : besides observing the sacrifices and other parts of religious worship, all others were devoted to mirth and feasting : friends sent presents to one another ; no war was to be proclaimed, and no offender executed ; the schools kept a vacation ; and •masters... | |
 | Horace - 1830 - 1104 pages
...reiuailable of Ik Roman festivals, and the most generally kept up. During its continuance, all order« »tie devoted to mirth and feasting ; friends sent presents to one another, and misters irtsHJ their slaves as if upon нп equal footing. It was celebrated in the month of December,... | |
 | 1859 - 736 pages
...Faunas; and, on the 17th, " Saturnalia," the feast of Saturn, the most celebrated of the whole year, when all orders were devoted to mirth and feasting, friends sent presents to one another, and masters treated their slaves upon an equal footing, at first for one day, afterwards for three, and,... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Rome - 1833 - 524 pages
...17th, (xvi. Kal. Jan.) SATURNALIA, the feasts of Saturn, the most celebrated of the whole year, when all orders were devoted to mirth and feasting ; friends sent presents to one nnother, Suet. Aug. 75. Vtsp. 19. Stat. Silv. vi. 9. and masters treated their slaves as if upon an... | |
 | Alexander Adam - 1835 - 570 pages
...FAUNALIA ; on the 17th,8 SATURNALIA, the feasts of Saturn, the most celebrated of the whole year, when all orders were devoted to mirth and feasting, friends sent presents to one another, and masters treated their slaves upon an equal footing, at first for one day, afterwards for three, and,... | |
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