# Poplifugia

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Ancient Roman festival

The **Poplifugia** or **Populifugia** ([Latin](/source/Latin): *the people's flight*) was a festival of [ancient Rome](/source/Ancient_Rome) celebrated on July 5,[1] according to Varro.[2] This festival commemorated Romans' flight during a critical period when the inhabitants of [Ficuleae](/source/Ficulea_(ancient_Latin_town)) and [Fidenae](/source/Fidenae) took up arms against them. This occurred shortly after the city had been ravaged by the [Gauls](/source/Gaul) (see [Battle of the Allia](/source/Battle_of_the_Allia)). The subsequent traditional Roman victory was commemorated on July 7, known as the *[Nonae Caprotinae](/source/Caprotinia)*, serving as a feast dedicated to [Juno](/source/Juno_(mythology)) Caprotina. On the following day, the [Vitulatio](/source/Vitulatio) took place, which was believed to signify the thanksgiving offering presented by the [pontifices](/source/Pontiff) in response to the event. Macrobius,[3] who inaccurately places the Poplifugia on the *[nones](/source/Roman_calendar#Days)*, suggests that it memorialized a flight in the face of the [Tuscans](/source/Tuscany), while Dionysius[4] 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.[5]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Woodard2013_1-0)** Roger D. Woodard (28 January 2013). [*Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity*](https://books.google.com/books?id=VkXlcVMP_dQC&pg=PA116). Cambridge University Press. pp. 116–. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-107-02240-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-107-02240-9).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Varro](/source/Marcus_Terentius_Varro), *On the Latin Language in 25 Books,* vi. 18

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Macrobius](/source/Macrobius), *Saturnalia,* iii. 2

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Dionysius of Halicarnassus](/source/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus), ii. 56.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [Joachim Marquardt](/source/Joachim_Marquardt), *Romische Staatsverwaltung,* iii. 325.

## 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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