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- A lectisternium is a banquet of the gods, where the statues of the gods were put upon cushions, and where these statues were offered meals.
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- In later times, the lectisternium became of constant (even daily) occurrence, and was celebrated in the different temples.
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- As there were six male and six female, they may well have been the twelve worshipped at the lectisternium of 217 BC.
- By order of the Sibylline books, in 399 B.C., the first lectisternium was held in Rome to combat a pestilence.
- For more information on lectisternium, visit Britannica.com.
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- Lectisternium (from Latin lectum sternere, "to spread a couch"; ---------------- in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, xii.
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- The consecrated places in the Forum, where the couches of the gods were placed in the lectisternium (q.
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