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| | LacusCurtius • Septimontium (Platner & Ashby, 1929) |
 | | Septimontium was also the name of a festival, celebrated on 11th December, and consisting in part of a lustral procession round the Palatine and Esquiline, which is mentioned in the calendars and several times in literature, especially in the following passages:— Varro, LL |
 | | Septimontium appellabant diem festum quod in septem locis faciebant sacrificium: Palatio, Velia, Fagutali,1 Subura, Cermalo, Caelio, Oppio et Cispio |
 | | It therefore seems as if the families that expelled the Tarquins formed an oligarchy, the patricians, while the other older families, who had been their partisans, lost many of their privileges and became plebeian. |
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