School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . ar, b. c. 59. This lex repealedthe penalty of exsilium, but in addition tothe litis aestimatio, it enacted that personsconvicted under this lex should lose theirrank, and be disqualified from being wit-nesses, judices, or senators. The lex hadbeen passed when Cicero made his orationagainst Piso, b. c. 55. A. Gabinius wasconvicted under this lex. Under the empire Lhe offence was pun-ishable with exile. REPOTIA. [Matrimonium, p. 246,a.]REPUDIUM. [DivoRTiuM.]RETIARIL [Gladiatores.] REX. RETICULUM (K€Kpi(pa\os), a caul orcoif of network for coveri
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . ar, b. c. 59. This lex repealedthe penalty of exsilium, but in addition tothe litis aestimatio, it enacted that personsconvicted under this lex should lose theirrank, and be disqualified from being wit-nesses, judices, or senators. The lex hadbeen passed when Cicero made his orationagainst Piso, b. c. 55. A. Gabinius wasconvicted under this lex. Under the empire Lhe offence was pun-ishable with exile. REPOTIA. [Matrimonium, p. 246,a.]REPUDIUM. [DivoRTiuM.]RETIARIL [Gladiatores.] REX. RETICULUM (K€Kpi(pa\os), a caul orcoif of network for covering the hair, wornby women during the day as well as thenight. It appears to have been sometimesmade of gold threads, and likewise of silkand other materials. This kind of cover-ing for the head was very ancient, for it ismentioned by Homer ; and it also appearsto have been very commonly used in latertimes. It is seen on the head of the nymphin the following cut, taken from a paintingfound at Pompeii, which represents anymph approaching RETIOnLUM. REUS. [Actor.] REX SACRIFFCULUS, REX SA-CRFFICUS, or REX SACRORUM. When the civil and military powers of theking were transferred to two praetors orconsuls, upon the establishment of the re-publican government at Rome, these ma-gistrates were not invested with that part ofthe royal dignity by virtue of which the kinghad been the high priest of his nation andhad conducted several of the sacra publica, RHEDA. but this priestly part of his office wastransferred to a priest called Rex Sacri-ficulus or Rex Sacroruin. The first rexsacroruin was designated, at the commandof the consuls, by the college of pontiffs,and inaugurated by the augurs. He wasalways elected and inaugurated in thecomitia curiata under the presidency of thepontiffs, and as long as a rex sacrificuluswas appointed at Rome, he was always apatrician, for as he had no influence uponthe management of political affairs, theplebeians never coveted this dignity. Consi
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