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	Vinalia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vinalia were Roman festivals in honour of Jupiter and Venus.
		The first was held on August 19, and the second on May 1.
		The Vinalia of August 19 were called Vinalia Rustica, and were instituted on occasion of the war of the Latins against Mezentius; in the course of which war, that people vowed a libation to Jupiter of all the wine in the succeeding vintage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vinalia (121 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 1198 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		the villa rustica^ and of all the business of the farm, except the cattle^ which were under the care of the mayister pecoris.
		The vinalia urbana were celebrated on the 23rd of April (jx.
		The rustic vinalia, which fell on the 19th of August (xiv.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-dgra/1205.html (751 words)

	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 691 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		in favour of country-houses, there arose the distinction between villa rustica and villa urbana.
		The villa rustica included apartments for the vllicus, or steward (a trustworthy slave or freed-man, who had to superintend money-matters), the book-keeper (actor), and the slaves, stalls, and store-rooms.
		In the erection of the villa urbana, efforts were made to unite the charm of beautiful laud-scape with the greatest comfort and convenience, and to procure advantages which a house in the town hemmed in on all sides by other houses could not always afford.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0694.html (740 words)

	Venus
		Later, on this date the Vinalia Rustica was observed.
		A second festival, that of the Veneralia, was celebrated on April 1 in honor of Venus Verticordia, who later became the protector against vice.
		This temple was officially opened on April 23, and a festival, the Vinalia Priora, was instituted to celebrate the occasion.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/v/venus.html (284 words)

	Wikipedia: August 18
		August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar.
		293 BC - Oldest known Roman temple to Venus founded, institution of Vinalia Rustica begins.
		Roman Empire - Vinalia Rustica celebrated in honor of Venus commemorating the founding of the oldest known temple to her in 293 BC on this date.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/a/au/august_18.html (608 words)

	August 19 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar.
		293 BC - Oldest known Roman temple to Venus Libitina founded on the Esquiline Hill; institution of Vinalia Rustica begins.
		Roman festivals - Vinalia Rustica celebrated in honor of Venus Libitina commemorating the founding of the oldest known temple to her, on the Esquiline Hill, in 293 BC on this date.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/August_19 (1204 words)

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		The nineteenth of August was called the Country Vinalia, because at that time a temple was dedicated to Venus and gardens were set apart for her, and then the kitchen gardeners went on holiday.
		Last words of the Roman emperor Augustus, to his friends, on this day, 14 CE I beseech Minerva and Venus, of whom one protects the olive yard and the other the garden.
		There were two festivals of this name celebrated by the Romans: the Vinalia urbana or priora, and the Vinalia rustica or altera.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/aug19.html (3232 words)

	Last Oration Against Marcus Antonius by Cicero
		* There were two wine feasts, Vinalia, at Rome: the vinalia urbana, celebrated on the twenty-third of April; and the vinalia rustica, on the nineteenth of October.
		This was the urbana vinalia; on which occasion the wine-casks which had been filled in the autumn were tasted for the first time.
		When, as you know, during the last three or four days a report of bad news from Mutina has been creeping abroad, the disloyal part of the citizens, inflated with exultation and insolence, began to collect in one place, at that senate-house which has been more fatal to their party than to the republic.
	www.4literature.net /Cicero/Last_Oration_Against_Marcus_Antonius/3.html (842 words)

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		On August 18, 293 BC, her oldest temple was built.
		August 18 was then a festival called the Vinalia Rustica.
		On April 1, the Veneralia was celebrated in honor of Venus Verticordia, the protector against vice.
	www.homestayfinder.com /Dictionary.aspx?q=Venus_(mythology) (256 words)

	Country Festivals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		After the festival of Ceres followed the vinalia rustica which was a wine feast to celebrate the end of winter most likely with generous helpings of wine.
		The harvest in August then saw festivals for Ops, the goddess of the harvest, for the granary god Consus, and, alas, another vinalia rustica.
		The festival to celebrate the wine crop was held on 11 October, the meditrinalia.
	www.roman-empire.net /religion/rel-fields.html (542 words)

	Roman Calendar - August (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This is one of the dies fasti (F), on which legal actions are permitted.
		This day was known as the Vinalia Rustica or the Vinalia Altera.
		On this day the first new wine was brought into the city.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/w/x/wxk116/RomanCalendar/aug16.htm (476 words)

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		Vinalia were wine festivals lasting several days, honouring
		Wine of the previous season was broached and libations of the old wine were poured on the ground (as an offering to Jupiter) from old wineskins by the officiating chief priest.
		Offer incense and pray for beauty and popular favour; pray to be charming and witty; give to the Queen her own myrtle and the mint she loves, and bands of rushes hid in clustered roses.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/apr23.html (4545 words)

	The Pagan Left: 08/18/05
		This is one of the dies fasti on which legal actions are permitted.
		This was the second or rustic Vinalia, when the priests plucked the year's first ripe grapes and asked Jupiter to protect the growing vines.
		It's interesting that it falls so close to the Blessing of the Grapes, done under the auspices of Mary.
	thepaganleft.blogspot.com /2005_08_18_thepaganleft_archive.html (1924 words)

	Encyclopedia: Vinalia Rustica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Vinalia of August 19 were called Vinalia Rustica, and were instituted on occasion of the war of the The word Latin has more than one meaning.
		Mezentius; in the course of which war, that people vowed a libation to Jupiter of all the wine in the succeeding vintage.
		Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Vinalia-Rustica (457 words)

	Meditrinalia and wine festivals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Liberalia (March 17) honored Liber Pater and his consort Libera, Italian deities associated with fertility of the fields and the cultivation of the vine, though not necessarily with the production of wine.
		The Vinalia Priora (April 23), also known at the Vinalia Urbana, celebrated the production of wine by opening casks from the previous year and pouring a libation (calpar) to Jupiter.
		The Vinalia Rustica (August 19), also known as the Vinalia Altera, celebrated the start of the grape harvest, in which the first grapes were broken off the vine by the flamen dialis.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/177792 (423 words)

	Forum Romanum
		This was the second Festival of Wine, following the Vinalia Priora of 23 April.
		It seems that the wine of the previous harvest could first be brought to Rome on 23 April, while on 19 August the ceremonies of the Vinalia Rustica were designed to gain protection of the growing wines, and the flamen Dialis officially announced the vintage (auspicatur vindemoniam), a practice which continued in Varro's day.
		The temple of Venus Obsequens near the Circus Maximus was built by Q. Fabius Maximus Gurges out of fines which he, as curule aedile, had imposed on women convicted of adultery; it was begun in 295 BC, possibly as a thank-offering for his father's victory over the Samites at Sentinum that year.
	www.novaroma.org /forum/mainlist/2000/2000-08-19.html (2217 words)

	www.Gothikangel.com
		Arrianhod [Celtic Mother Godesses], Festival of Vesta [Rome], end of dog days
		Vinalia Rustica [Roman day sacred to Venus], Minerva
		Nemesca Festival [Greek Goddess of Fate], Vertumnus [Roman God of the Changing Seasons], Vulcan [=Roman God of Volcanic Eruptions], Nymphs
	www.gothikangel.com /MagickGMHesperis.htm (163 words)

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