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Under the leadership of John I. Gaines the trustees called indignation meetings, and raised sufficient money to employ Flamen Ball, an attorney, to secure a writ of mandamus. The case was contested by the city officials even in the Supreme Court of the State which decided against the officious whites. Unfortunately it turned out that this decision did not mean very much to the Negroes.
Flamen loosed the wicket latch, and thought there might be better ways of spending the day than in the gray shadows of old Mechlin. "Will you give me a draught of water?" he asked her as he crossed the garden. "I will give you breakfast," said Bébée, happy as a bird.
The pecuniary penalty was only intended as a means of stating a test case to be submitted, as similar cases had been twice before, to the decision of the people. Flaccus entered an appeal against the fine, and the judgment of the Comitia was invited. The verdict of the people was that the fine should be remitted, but that the Flamen should obey the pontiff.
Her voice faltered a little and stopped: she had never before thought out into words her own loneliness; from the long green arbor the voices of the girls and the students sang, "Ah! le doux son d'un baiser tendre!" Flamen was silent. The poet in him and in an artist there is always more or less of the poet kept him back from ridicule, nay, moved him to pity and respect.
A careful system of vine-husbandry was early and generally inculcated by the Latin priests. In Rome the vintage did not begin until the supreme priest of the community, the -flamen- of Jupiter, had granted permission for it and had himself made a beginning; in like manner a Tusculan ordinance forbade the sale of new wine, until the priest had proclaimed the festival of opening the casks.
Like so many priestly kings, he is probably regarded as divine, and it is therefore right that his sacred spirit should not be exposed to the risk of being cut or wounded whenever it quits his body to hover invisible in the air or to fly on some distant mission. Blood tabooed WE have seen that the Flamen Dialis was forbidden to touch or even name raw flesh.
Pugh for the prisoner, and by Mr. Aaron F. Perry and the District Attorney Flamen Ball for General Burnside. The hearing occupied several days, and the judgment of the court was given on the morning of the 16th.
A careful system of vine-husbandry was early and generally inculcated by the Latin priests. In Rome the vintage did not begin until the supreme priest of the community, the -flamen- of Jupiter, had granted permission for it and had himself made a beginning; in like manner a Tusculan ordinance forbade the sale of new wine, until the priest had proclaimed the festival of opening the casks.
For the Flamen Dialis was the priest of Jove; indeed, ancient and modern writers have regarded him, with much probability, as a living image of Jupiter, a human embodiment of the sky-god.
'The flamen be obeyed, said the centurion. 'How is the murderer? 'Insensible or asleep. 'Were his crimes less, I could pity him. On! Arbaces, as he turned, met the eye of that priest of Isis it was Calenus; and something there was in that glance, so significant and sinister, that the Egyptian muttered to himself: 'Could he have witnessed the deed?
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