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Companion to Roman history (1912)

Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 292

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Unxia, who anointed her,and so forth—came to be regarded as titles of Juno. After thesymbolical joining of hands (shown on PI. XLIV), it was the cus-tom to sacrifice a victim to Jupiter. The brides costume (the detailsof which are not minutely rendered on the sarcophagus reproduced)was the tunica… … Mansell & Co.Dextrarum iuncHo (from a sarcophagus in the British Museum). T 2 270 EELIGION CHAP. IV the head. Her hair was parted into the six locks (sex crines) worn bythe Vestals (cf. p. 282) by a comb like a spear with a curved end{hasta caelibaris). After the ceremony the bride was escorted…

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