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The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic

Note 226 — MENSIS APRILIS.

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‘Ceres a creando dicta,’ Serv. Georg. 1. 7. It is worth noting that in Nonius Marcellus, 44, cerriti = larvati, where cerus seems to mean a ghost. If so, we have a good example of a common origin of ghosts and gods in the animistic ideas of early Italy.

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