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" SUOVETAURI'LIA. [SACRIFICIUM, p. 277; LUSTRATIO, p. 206; and wood-cut on p. 296.] SU'PPARUM. [NAVis, p. 224.] SUPPER. [COENA; DEIPNON.] SUPPUCA'TIO, a solemn thanksgiving or supplication to the gods, decreed by the senate, when all the temples were opened,... "
A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman Antiquities - Page 304
by William Smith - 1851 - 373 pages
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A School Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Abridged from the Larger ...

William Smith, Charles Anthon - Classical dictionaries - 1846 - 402 pages
...p. 206; and wood-cut on p. 296.] SU'PPARUM. [NAVis, p. 224.] SUPPER. [COENA; DEIPNON.] SUPPUCA'TIO, a solemn thanksgiving or supplication to the gods,...had been received by a letter from the general in SYCOPHANTES. command. The number of days during which it was to last was proportioned to the importance...
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The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Three orations on the Agrarian law ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Oratory, Ancient - 1852 - 536 pages
...thanksgiving to the gods, decreed by the senate, when all the temples were opened and the statues of the gods placed in public upon couches (pulvinaria), to which...people offered up their thanksgivings and prayers. It was usually decreed on the intelligence arriving of any great victory, and the number of days which...
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A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Abridged from the ...

William Smith - Classical dictionaries - 1868 - 492 pages
...SUOVÉTAURÏLÏA. [SACBIFICTTM, p. 325 ; LUSTRATIO; and woodcut on p. 343.] SUPPÄRUM. [NATIS, p. 207, b.] SUPPLICATIO, a solemn thanksgiving or supplication...people offered up their thanksgivings and prayers. [LECTISTEENIUM.] A supplicatio was decreed for two different reasons. 1. As a thanksgiving, when a...
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Select orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1873 - 454 pages
...Dict. Antiqq. Page 43 33. Snpplicatio, " a solemn thanksgiving or supplication to the goda deerecd by the senate, when all the temples were opened and...in public upon couches (pulvinaria), to which the pcople offered up their thanksgivings and prayers." Dict. Antiqq. Cicero was the first civilian (togatas)...
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C. Sallusti Crispi Catilina et Jugurtha

Sallust - Rome - 1874 - 358 pages
...pragers, " a solemn thanksgicing Page er supplication to the gods deerecd by the senate, when all the 52 temples were opened and the statues of the gods frequently...couches (pulvinaria), to which the people offered np their thanksgivings and prayers." Diet. Antiqq. 17-37. Trepida, anxious, agitated. 18. Laeta agare...
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Catilina et Jugurtha: With explanatory notes, lexicon, etc

Sallust - 1879 - 346 pages
...prayers, "u solemn thanksgiving Page er supplication to the gods decreed by the senate, when all the ¡jg temples were opened and the statues of the gods frequently...people offered up their thanksgivings and prayers." Diet. Antiqq. 17-37. Trepida, anxious, agitated. 18. Lauta agare = gave loose to their joy. Laeta may...
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Select Orations

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Latin language - 1896 - 592 pages
...thanksgiving to the gods, decreed by the senate, when all the temples were opened and the statues of the gods placed in public upon couches (pulvinaria), to which...people offered up their thanksgivings and prayers. It was usually decreed on the intelligence arriving of any great victory, and the number of days which...
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Orations of Demosthenes: Translated by Charles Rann Kennedy, with a Critical ...

Demosthenes - Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek - 1900 - 522 pages
...thanksgiving to the gods, decreed by the Senate, when all the temples were opened and the statues of the gods placed in public upon couches (pulvinaria), to which...people offered up their thanksgivings and prayers. It was usually decreed on the intelligence arriving of any great victory, and the number of days which...
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