flamen in a sentence
Examples
- The couple were not permitted to divorce, and if the flaminica died the flamen had to resign his office.
- The flamens were priests in charge of fifteen official cults of Roman religion, each assigned to a particular god.
- The origin of the word " flamen " is as obscure as are some of the assigned gods.
- George Hoadly graduated from Zanesville, followed by study with the firm of Flamen Ball and Salmon P . Chase.
- It is likely that this Sextus Appuleius, and not his father, was " Flamen Iulialis ".
- The flamen Volcanalis officiated at a sacrifice to the goddess Maia, held every year at the Kalendae of May.
- The king of sacrifices retained some religious rites only he could perform, and acted as quasi-flamen to Janus.
- The following year he was nominated to be the new " Flamen Dialis ", high priest of Cornelia.
- The festival began with the sacrifice by the Luperci ( or the flamen dialis ) of two male goats and a dog.
- Originally, the " confarreatio " was indissoluble, and this remained true of the marriage of the Flamen Dialis.