Romans offering meals to gods and goddesses in the Lectisternium, an ancient Roman propitiatory ceremony. Prisoners and debtors were freed to celebrate. Celebration du Lectisterne. Copperplate engraving by M. Bauer after a design by Benjamin Samuel Bolomey from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappe’s Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millot’s Abrege de l’Histoire Romaine.

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