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Plutarch, Roman Questions, 89
nan Why do they call the Quirinalia the Feast of Fools? Cf. Ovid, Fasti, ii. 513 ff. Is it because, as Juba Müller, Frag. Hist. Graec. iii. p. 470. states, they apportioned that day to men who did not know their own kith and kin? Curiae Or was it granted to those who, because of some business, or absence from Rome, or ignorance, had not sacrificed with the rest of their tribe on the Fornacalia, that, on this day, they might take their due enjoyment of that festival?
nan Why do they call the Quirinalia the Feast of Fools? Is it because, as Juba states, they apportioned that day to men who did not know their own kith and kin? Or was it granted to those who, because of some business, or absence from Rome, or ignorance, had not sacrificed with the rest of their tribe on the Fornacalia, that, on this day, they might take their due enjoyment of that festival?

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aedis	Rüpke (2011) 73
curia calabra	Rüpke (2011) 73
dead,cult of the	Rüpke (2011) 73
etymologies	Rüpke (2011) 73
february	Rüpke (2011) 73
feralia	Rüpke (2011) 73
feriae,stultorum	Rüpke (2011) 73
flamen,dialis	Rüpke (2011) 73
fornacalia	Rüpke (2011) 73
iohannes lydus	Rüpke (2011) 73
l. papirius cursor	Rüpke (2011) 73
lex,acilia	Rüpke (2011) 73
lupercal	Rüpke (2011) 73
lupercalia	Rüpke (2011) 73
luperci	Rüpke (2011) 73
nundinum	Rüpke (2011) 73
ovid	Rüpke (2011) 73
parentalia	Rüpke (2011) 73
priesthood	Rüpke (2011) 73
quirinalia	Rüpke (2011) 73
quirinus	Rüpke (2011) 73
quirites	Rüpke (2011) 73
sacra idulia	Rüpke (2011) 73
ser. cornelius lentulus maluginensis	Rüpke (2011) 73
temples,of faunus'	Rüpke (2011) 73
temples	Rüpke (2011) 73