Cornelius Nepos: With Answered Questions, and Imitative Exercises

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D. Appleton & Company, 1848 - Classical biography - 403 pages

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Page 242 - Sacrifices being of the nature of feasts, the Greeks and Romans on occasion of extraordinary solemnities placed images of the gods reclining on couches with tables and viands before them, as if they were really partaking of the things offered in sacrifice. This ceremony was called [by the Romans] a lectisternium.
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