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| | Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 548 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | On April 25th a festival called the RoblgCMa, supposed to have been instituted by Numa, was held in their honour in their grove, distant nearly five miles from Rome. |
 | | The citizens marched to the spot in white festal attire, under the conduct of the flamen QuirlnaHs, Robigus having at first apparently represented only a particular function of Mars (or Qulrlnus), as protector of the arable land. |
 | | After a prayer, accompanied by offerings of incense and wine, for the preservation of the ripening seed, the flamen offered sacrifice with the entrails of a young sorrel dog and a sheep. |
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