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The family on their return proceeded at once to rites of purification from the contamination which had overtaken them owing to the presence of a dead body. Two other ceremonies within the following week, the feriae denicales and the novendiale sacrum, brought the religious mourning to a close.
So too in the city it was simply impossible that all work should cease on feriae, of which there were more than a hundred in the year, including the Ides of every month and some of the Kalends and Nones. As a matter of fact a double change had come about since the city and its dominion began to increase rapidly about the time of the Punic wars.
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