Poplifugia

{{Short description|Ancient Roman festival}} The '''Poplifugia''' or '''Populifugia''' ([[Latin]]: ''the people's flight'') was a festival of [[ancient Rome]] celebrated on July 5,<ref name="Woodard2013">{{cite book|author=Roger D. Woodard|title=Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VkXlcVMP_dQC&pg=PA116|date=28 January 2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-02240-9|pages=116–}}</ref> according to Varro.<ref>[[Marcus Terentius Varro|Varro]], ''On the Latin Language in 25 Books,'' vi. 18</ref> This festival commemorated Romans' flight during a critical period when the inhabitants of [[Ficulea (ancient Latin town)|Ficuleae]] and [[Fidenae]] took up arms against them. This occurred shortly after the city had been ravaged by the [[Gaul]]s (see [[Battle of the Allia]]). The subsequent traditional Roman victory was commemorated on July 7, known as the ''[[Caprotinia|Nonae Caprotinae]]'', serving as a feast dedicated to [[Juno (mythology)|Juno]] Caprotina. On the following day, the [[Vitulatio]] took place, which was believed to signify the thanksgiving offering presented by the [[Pontiff|pontifices]] in response to the event. Macrobius,<ref>[[Macrobius]], ''Saturnalia,'' iii. 2</ref> who inaccurately places the Poplifugia on the ''[[Roman calendar#Days|nones]]'', suggests that it memorialized a flight in the face of the [[Tuscany|Tuscans]], while Dionysius<ref>[[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]], ii. 56.</ref> traces its origins back to the time when the patricians murdered Romulus, occurring after the populace had dispersed from a public assembly due to rain and darkness.<ref>[[Joachim Marquardt]], ''Romische Staatsverwaltung,'' iii. 325.</ref>

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==References== * ''This entry incorporates public domain text originally from'' (eds. William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin), ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities'', Albemarle Street, London. John Murray. 1890.

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