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    The Amburbium ("City Circuit", from ambire, "to go around" + urb-, "city"; plural amburbia) was an ancient Roman festival for purifying the city; that...
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  • year with the seasons. February observances in Ancient Rome included Amburbium (precise date unknown), Sementivae (February 2), Februa (February 13–15)...
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  • missed their own or who were uncertain to which curia they belonged. Amburbium, a ceremony to purify the city (urbs) as a whole, perhaps held sometime...
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    Scaliger, in his notes on Festus, maintains the ambarvalia to be the same as amburbium. Numerous other communities of the Italian peninsula enacted similar rites...
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    February had one and possibly two moveable feasts (feriae conceptivae). The Amburbium ("City Circuit") was a purification of the whole city with no fixed date...
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    moved, which was taken as a sign of stability for the city. Februarius Amburbium Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, 15 Dionysius, Roman Antiquities II, 74...
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    g. a statue of the city's patron saint), in Latin circumambulatio or amburbium, which can be found in many religions and beliefs. The fourth Sunday of...
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    religious symbol (i.e. the Virgin Mary's statue), in Latin circumambulatio or amburbium, which can be found in many religions and beliefs. This Marian procession...
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    g. a statue of the city's patron saint), in Latin circumambulatio or amburbium, which can be found in many religions and beliefs. A tenacious but erroneous...
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