lustrum

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 5 §31 in that lustrum

  The purificatory sacrifice that closed the census every five years; also the five-year span it marked.

• The History of Rome, Book 24 §43 From completing the lustrum

  The purificatory sacrifice closing the census; the death of one censor and abdication of the other left it uncompleted.

• The History of Rome, Book 27 §35 the lustrum

  The lustrum, the purificatory sacrifice closing the censors' five-yearly review of the citizen body.

• The History of Rome, Book 29 §37 lustrum

  The lustrum, the purificatory sacrifice closing the census, here delayed for the army returns.

• The History of Rome, Book 35 §8 the lustrum

  The purificatory rite and ceremony that closed the census every five years.

• The History of Rome, Book 38 §24 lustrum

  The purificatory sacrifice closing the census every five years, marking the period itself.

• The History of Rome, Book 42 §13 lustrum

  A purification ritual the Roman censors performed at the close of each census, roughly every five years; the word also came to mean the five-year period itself.

• The History of Rome, Fragments §1 A lustrum

  The purificatory rite closing the census, by which the number of citizens was officially registered.