lectisternium

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 5 §13 a lectisternium

  A rite of propitiation, here held for the first time at Rome, in which images of the gods were laid on couches and offered a banquet.

• The History of Rome, Book 7 §2 a lectisternium

  A rite of propitiation in which images of the gods were laid on couches and offered a banquet, to beseech 'the peace of the gods' in a crisis.

• The History of Rome, Book 8 §25 a lectisternium

  A propitiatory banquet at which images of the gods were laid on couches; the fifth since the founding.

• The History of Rome, Book 22 §1 lectisternium

  A rite in which images of the gods were laid on couches and offered a banquet.

• The History of Rome, Book 36 §1 lectisternium

  A propitiatory rite in which images of the gods were laid on couches and offered a banquet.

• The History of Rome, Book 42 §31 the couches of the gods

  The pulvinaria were the sacred couches on which images of the gods were laid out at a ritual banquet (lectisternium); gifts were placed at them in supplication.