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| Lupercalia | Pre-Roman pastoral annual festival, observed in the city of Rome to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility |
| Saturnalia | A festival that celebrated the golden age of Saturn,When there was no war |
| Matronalia | Roman matrons celebrated and dedicated a temple to the goddess Juno on March 1 375 BC. |
| Phythia | The name of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi who also served as the Oracle. |
| Nones | In the ancient Roman calendar, the ninth day before the ides by inclusive reckoning, that is, the 7th day of March, May, July, and October, or the 5th of other months |
| Ides | The thirteenth or fifteenth of the month in the Roman calendar, occurred at the appearance of the full moon. |
| Calends | First day of every month in the Roman calendar |
| augur | Interpretes the will of the gods by studying the flight of birds |
| haruspex | A religious official who interpreted omens by inspecting the entrails of sacrificial animals |
| pontifex maximus | The Chief High Priest of the College of Pontiffs in ancient Rome. |
| vestals | Priestesses of the Roman goddess of the hearth |
| penates | Household gods worshipped with Vesta and Lares |
| lares | Guardian deities in ancient roman religion |
| Liberalia | This feast celebrates the passage of young boys into Roman manhood. |
| conclāmātiō | part of the service where the eldest male relative called out the name of the deceased three times |
| laudātiō | Funeral oration, eulogy |
| toga pulla | A black or dark garment worn in times of mourning |
| imāginēs | masks of the family ancestors |
| rogus | Roman funeral pyre |
| triumph | held in honor of a victorious general |
| toga | a loose, draped outer garment of Roman citizens. |
| corona | A circle of men or Roman troops |
| Homer | the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey |
| Pliny | A Roman Author,a natural philosopher, a navy commander of the early Roman Empire |
| Plautus | A Roman playwright of the Old Latin period; comedies are mostly adapted from Greek models for a Roman audience, and are often based directly on the works of the Greek playwrights |
| Cicero | A Roman Statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who served as consul in the year 63 BC |
| Ovid | noted especially for his Ars amatoria and Metamorphoses |
| Suetonius | the author of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars |
| Plutarch | known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia |
| Juvenal | He is the author of the collection of satirical poems known as the Satires. |
| Sallust | noted for his narrative writings dealing with political personalities, corruption, and party rivalry. |
| Sophocles | His first plays were written later than or contemporary with those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides |
| Euripedes | He is known primarily for having reshaped the formal structure of traditional Greek tragedy by showing strong female characters and intelligent slaves |
| Aeschylus | He is often described as the father of tragedy. |
| Martial | best known for his twelve books of Epigrams |
| Livy | author of the authorized version of the history of the Roman republic. |
| Catullus | wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry, which is about personal life rather than classical heroes |
| Tacitus | The surviving portions of his two major works are the Annals and the Histories |
| Sappho | known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by a lyre |
| Seneca | He was forced to take his own life for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero |
| Pliny the Younger | Roman author and administrator who left a collection of private letters of great literary charm |
| Tacitus | a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire; from his seat in the Senate, he became suffect consul in 97 during the reign of Nerva |
