supplications

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 5 §23 supplications for four days

  A public thanksgiving (or, in danger, entreaty) at which the people went to all the temples to give thanks or pray; here decreed for four days.

• The History of Rome, Book 7 §28 make supplication

  A supplicatio: a public thanksgiving or appeasement at which the people and neighboring towns visited the temples in turn.

• The History of Rome, Book 21 §17 supplication

  A supplicatio: a public day of prayer and thanksgiving at the gods' couches, here decreed on the declaration of war.

• The History of Rome, Book 22 §1 supplication

  A public day of prayer at all the gods' couches, decreed to avert divine anger.

• The History of Rome, Book 23 §11 supplications

  A public thanksgiving or rite of supplication at the gods' couches, decreed in crisis or for a victory.

• The History of Rome, Book 24 §10 a supplication was proclaimed to all the gods

  A public rite of thanksgiving and entreaty at the gods' couches, decreed to expiate prodigies or mark a crisis.

• The History of Rome, Book 25 §7 supplication

  A public thanksgiving or entreaty at the temples, decreed to expiate the year's prodigies (§7).

• The History of Rome, Book 27 §4 a supplication

  A supplicatio: a public act of thanksgiving or entreaty at the gods' shrines, proclaimed to expiate prodigies or mark victories.

• The History of Rome, Book 29 §14 supplication

  A supplicatio: a public act of entreaty or thanksgiving at the gods' shrines, here to avert prodigies.

• The History of Rome, Book 30 §1 supplication

  A supplicatio: a public act of entreaty or thanksgiving at the gods' shrines, here decreed for Scipio's crossing.

• The History of Rome, Book 31 §6 supplication

  A supplicatio: a public act of entreaty or thanksgiving at the gods' shrines, here decreed for three days at the war's opening.

• The History of Rome, Book 32 §2 supplication

  A public day of prayer at the couches of the gods.

• The History of Rome, Book 35 §7 a thanksgiving

  A public thanksgiving (supplicatio) decreed to the gods for a victory or in time of alarm.

• The History of Rome, Book 35 §8 the city was purified

  Expiatory rites and a thanksgiving to avert the danger portended by the prodigies.

• The History of Rome, Book 36 §1 supplicatio

  A public thanksgiving at which the people processed garlanded to the gods' temples to pray or give thanks.

• The History of Rome, Book 37 §3 thanksgiving

  A supplicatio, a public act of prayer at the gods' couches, decreed in time of crisis or thanksgiving.

• The History of Rome, Book 39 §48 supplication

  A public thanksgiving or rite of expiation at the temples, decreed to avert or thank the gods.

• The History of Rome, Book 43 §20 a supplication

  A supplicatio, a public rite of prayer at the couches of the gods, decreed to expiate prodigies.

• The History of Rome, Book 45 §1 supplications

  A supplicatio, a public thanksgiving at the couches of the gods, decreed here for the victory at Pydna.