Among the feriae conceptivae were the very ancient feriae Latinae, held in honour of Jupiter on the Alban Mount, and attended by all the higher magistrates and the whole body of the senate.
The feriae sementivae were held in the spring, and the Ambarvalia in autumn, both in honour of Ceres.
The dies festi or feriae publicae[10] were either stativae, conceptivae or imperativae.
In the Augustan age the feriae stativae were very numerous, as may be seen from what we possess of the Fasti of Ovid.
Feriae privatae, such as anniversaries of births, deaths, and the like, were observed by separate clans, families or individuals.
He also points out that at the feriae Latinae the swingers seem to have been human beings, if we accept the evidence of Festus, s.
Two other ceremonies within the following week, the feriae denicales and the novendiale sacrum, brought the religious mourning to a close.
The Floralia of the 28th does not occur in the old Calendars, probably because it was a moveable feast (feriae conceptivae), but it is an unmistakeable petition to the numen Flora for the blossoming of the season's flowers.
So the old religious wordferiae becomes gradually supplanted, in the sense of a public holiday of amusement, by the word ludi, and came at last to mean, as it still does in Germany, the holidays of schoolboys.
These ludi will form the chief subject of this chapter; but we must first mention one or two of the old feriaewhich seem always to have remained occasions of holiday-making, at any rate for the lower classes of the population.
Some remarks upon the numerous "mummeries" and festas of the inhabitants lead him into a long digression upon the feriae of the Romans.
Since which things are so, it behoves me to proclaim to all of you feriae tridui imperativae.
But again there are seasons, when the dies festi must be held, and the feriae Latinae, which a former pupil of mine translated 'a holiday from Latin.
Non-privileged feriae are the feriae of Lent and Advent, Quarter Tense or Ember days and Rogation Monday.
In Strabo's time it was apparently ruined and deserted, and at an earlier date Cicero says that it was difficult to find any inhabitant to represent Labicum at the Feriae Latinae.
However, the senators did not change their attire nor attend the festivals nor celebrate the feast of Jupiter on the Capitol nor go out to Albanum for the Feriae Latinae, held there for the second time by reason of something not rightly done.
Organa quae pulsantur dum cantatur Gloria in excelsis in Missa Feriae Quintae in Coena Domini, silere postea debent donec initium fiat ejusdem hymni angelici in Missa Sabbati Sancti.
The chariot of Minerva while returning to the Capitol from a horse-race was dashed to pieces, and the statue of Jupiter at Albanum sent forth blood at the very time of the Feriae from its right shoulder and right hand.
During the Feriae the prefect of the city celebrated the festival of Latiaris,[34] which neither belonged to him nor was ordinarily observed at that time, and the plebeian aediles offered to Ceres contests in armor in place of the horse-race.
Footnote 34: Iuppiter Latiaris was the protecting deity of Latium, and his festival is practically identical with the Feriae Latinae.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feriae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
