losed the period of mourn-ing, the sacrificium novendiale was offered to the Manes of the dead,and a solemn meal [cena novendialis) took place. Funeral games[ludi novendiales) were sometimes celebrated in honour of distin-guished Romans (cf. p. 353). Not only the family, but also the group of… … 278 EELIGION CHAP. IV little of these, except in those cases where the State adopted aprivate cult but left the performance of its rites to the priests ofthe gois. The most famous example of this is the worship ofHercules at the Ara Maxima in the Forum Boarium (p. 30),which was in the hands of the…
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