festival
Parilia
The shepherds' purification feast of Pales on April 21, also kept as the birthday of Rome.
Reading notes
- The Festivals §4.21 Parilia
The shepherds' purification feast of Pales (April 21), also kept as the birthday of Rome.
- The Festivals §6.9 Parilia
The shepherds' festival (April 21) also marking Rome's birthday; forty had passed when Vesta got her temple.
- Metamorphoses §14.467 the festal Parilia
The Parilia (Palilia), the shepherds' feast of Pales on 21 April, the traditional birthday of Rome's founding.