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Updated: May 13, 2025
Grumbates gave the signal for the assault by hurling a bloody spear into the space before the walls, after the fashion of a Roman fetialis.
In like manner the Fetialis and the Pontifex could not interfere in matters of international or common law except when those concerned therewith desired it.
In like manner the Fetialis and the Pontifex could not interfere in matters of international or common law except when those concerned therewith desired it.
The hasta fetialis has been styled a fetish an apparent abuse of language. As to the Holy Cross qua fetish, why discuss such free-thinking credulities? Modern anthropologists Tylor, Frazer, and the rest are not under the censure appropriate to the illogical. More Mischiefs of Comparison Fetishism was represented as 'the very beginning of religion, first among the negroes, then among all races.
It was customary for the fetialis to carry in his hand a spear pointed with steel, or burned at the end and dipped in blood, to the confines of the enemy's country, and in presence of at least three grown-up persons, to say, "Forasmuch as the states of the ancient Latins, and the ancient Latin people, have offended against the Roman people of the Quirites, forasmuch as the Roman people of the Quirites have ordered that there should be war with the ancient Latins, and the senate of the Roman people, the Quirites, have given their opinion, agreed, and voted that war should be waged with the ancient Latins, on this account I and the Roman people declare and wage war on the states of the ancient Latins, and on the ancient Latin people."
For they voted to the men arrayed on his side pardon and praise if they would abandon him, and declared war outright upon Cleopatra, put on their military cloaks as though he were close at hand, and went to the temple of Bellona where they performed through Caesar as fetialis all the rites preliminary to war in the customary fashion.
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