School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . rorum announced (edicebat)to them the succession of the festivals forthe month. This part of his functions,however, must have ceased after the timeof Cn. Flavius. He lived in a domus pub-lica on the via sacra, near the regia and thehouse of the vestal virgins. RHEDA or REDA, a travelling car-riage with four wheels. Like the Covinusand the Essedum it was of Gallic origin,and may perhaps contain the same root asthe German reiten and our ride. It wasthe common carriage used by the Romansfor travelling, and was frequently made ROBIGALIA. 313 large
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . rorum announced (edicebat)to them the succession of the festivals forthe month. This part of his functions,however, must have ceased after the timeof Cn. Flavius. He lived in a domus pub-lica on the via sacra, near the regia and thehouse of the vestal virgins. RHEDA or REDA, a travelling car-riage with four wheels. Like the Covinusand the Essedum it was of Gallic origin,and may perhaps contain the same root asthe German reiten and our ride. It wasthe common carriage used by the Romansfor travelling, and was frequently made ROBIGALIA. 313 large enough not only to contain many per-sons, but also baggage and utensils ofvarious kinds. The word Epirhediiun,which was formed by the Romans fromthe Greek preposition iiri and the Gallicrheda, is explained by the Scholiast on Ju-venal, as: Ornamentum rhedarum autplaustrum. RHYTON Qvt6p), a drinking-horn(Kepas). Its original form was probablythe horn of the ox, but one end of it wasafterwards ornamented with the heads ofvarious animals and HHTTA, BRINKING-H0RN3. The Rhyton had a small opening at thebottom, which the person Avho drank putinto his mouth, and allowed the wine torun in : hence it derived its name. RICA. [Flamen.] RICINIUM, an article of female dress,appears to have been a kind of mantle,with a sort of cowl attached to it, in orderto cover the head. The mavortium, ma-vorte, or mavors of later times was thoughtto be only another name for what had for-merly been called ricinium. RINGS. [ ROADS. [Viae.] ROBIGALIA, a public festival inhonour of the god Robigus, to preserve thefields from mildew, is said to have been in-stituted by Numa, and was celebratedApril 25th. The sacrifices offered on thisoccasion consisted of the entrails of a doand a sheep, accompanied with frankin-cense and wine: a prayer was presentedby a flamen in the grove of the ancientdeity, whom Ovid and. Columella make agoddess. A god Robigus or a goddessRobigo is a mere invention from
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