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| | Livy's History of Rome |
 | | At first they were confined to women; no male was admitted, and they had three stated days in the year on which persons were initiated during the daytime, and matrons were chosen to act as priestesses. |
 | | Paculla Annia, a Campanian, when she was priestess, made a complete change, as though by divine monition, for she was the first to admit men, and she initiated her own sons, Minius Cerinnius and Herennius Cerinnius. |
 | | At the same time she made the rite a nocturnal one, and instead of three days in the year celebrated it five times a month. |
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