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Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database
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Dionysius Of Halycarnassus,
Roman Antiquities
, 2.71.4
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For in all of them young men clad in handsome tunics, with helmets, swords and bucklers, march in file. These are the leaders of the procession and are called by the Romans, from a game of which the Lydians seem to have been the inventors, ludiones; they show merely a certain resemblance, in my opinion, to the Salii, since they do not, like the Salii, do any of the things characteristic of the Curetes, either in their hymns or dancing. And it was necessary that the Salii should be free men and native Romans and that both their fathers and mothers should be living; whereas the others are of any condition whatsoever. But why should I say more about them? <
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Henderson,
The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus
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