Lustratio was an ancient Greek and ancient Roman purification ritual. It included a procession and in some circumstances the sacrifice of a pig (sus)...

(ovis) and a bull (taurus) to the deity Mars to bless and purify land (Lustratio). There were two kinds: suovetaurilia lactentia ("suckling suovetaurilia")...

ages, which however, as we have seen, was not observed with regularity. Lustratio Decade Century Millennium Oxford Latin Desk Dictionary (2005). Oxford:...

Ceriales (Ceres' games). She was also honoured in the May lustration (lustratio) of the fields at the Ambarvalia festival: at harvesttime: and during...

of a propitiatory offering. The term is taken from the ancient Roman lustratio purification rituals. After the fall of the various European Communist...

were ritually garlanded, led around the outer perimeter of the camp (a lustratio exercitus) and in through a gate, then sacrificed: Trajan's column shows...

expiating human sacrifice. There is also no doubt a connection with the lustratio in that both rely on purification by the air.  One or more of the preceding...

Lupercalia. The most famous person to serve as a lupercus was Mark Antony. The lustratio is a ritual of purification that was held every five years under the jurisdiction...

Hebrews to the Greeks and Romans (particularly the purifying ceremony Lustratio), Egyptians (for example in the cult of Apis) and from the Aztecs to the...

Empire. A large frieze, known as Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus, showing a lustratio of a Roman army and a sea thiasus probably comes from this temple - it...