"Arval" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not hear your trentals, Nor eat your arval bread; For the kin of you will surely do Their ...
— The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke • Rupert Brooke
... month: the date of its occurrence was no doubt fixed according to the state of the crops in any given year. As the individual farmer purified his own fields for the aversion of evil, so a solemn lustration of the boundaries of the state was performed by special priests, known as the Arval brethren (fratres Arvales). With ceremonial dancing (tripudium) they moved along the boundary-marks and made the farmer's most complete offering of the pig, sheep, and ox (suovetaurilia): the fruits of the last year and the new harvest (aridae et virides) ...
— The Religion of Ancient Rome • Cyril Bailey |
