quirinalia การใช้

• The " Quirinalia " were held on February 17 and must be among the oldest Roman yearly festivals.
• The last day of the festival is called the " Quirinalia " and corresponds with the traditional day of Romulus'death.
• Beside these festivals that of " Quirinus " himself, the Quirinalia, would logically and probably require the participation of the " flamen Quirinalis ".
• There is also a connection between the function of the flamen Quirinalis in the Quirinalia and the functioning of organized Roman society as expressed through the role played by the " curiae " in the Fornacalia.
• The " curio maximus " presided over the Quirinalia, and also the agricultural festivals of the " curiae " such as the Fordicidia, when pregnant cows were sacrificed, and the Fornacalia, or Oven Festival.
• The reciprocity of the two gods'situations is subsumed under the role of opener and closer played by Janus as Ovid states : " Why are you hidden in peace, and open when the arms have been moved ? " Another analogous correspondence may be found in the festival of the Quirinalia of February, last month of the ancient calendar of Numa.
• Other feriae on which this flamen officiated were the Robigalia, the Quirinalia that Dumezil identifies with the last day of the Fornacalia, also named " stultorum feriae " because on that day the people who had forgot to roast their spelt on the day prescribed by the curio maximus for their own curia were given a last chance to make amends, and the Larentalia held in memory of Larunda.
• The Fornacalia overlapped with the festival of the ancestral dead that dominated the month, and on its last day coincided with the Quirinalia, a day also known as the Feast of Fools " ( feriae stultorum ) " . " Februarius " was thus such a religiously complex month that during the Julian reform of the calendar, when days were added to some months, it was left as it had been, even though it was the shortest month.