During these days the magistrates laid aside the insignia of their offices, the temples were shut, marriages were forbidden, and every family carried out at the tombs of its relatives ceremonies resembling those of the sacra privata.
The cabinet connecting these two cells has a Latin legend, to say that Religion here dwells near the temple of the liberal arts: Bina vides parvo discrimine juncta sacella, Altera pars Musis altera sacra Deo est.
Yet Mirchond must have condemned their zeal, since he approved the legal toleration of the Magi, cui (the fire temple) peracto singulis annis censu uti sacra Mohammedis lege cautum, ab omnibus molestiis ac oneribus libero esse licuit.
To the south was the Via Sacra extending to the Colosseum, and beyond it the Appia Via, lined with monuments as far as the eye could reach.
The whole method of a Fiesolan Sacra Rappresentazione is well explained in the induction to the play of Abraam e Sara (Siena, 1581).
Yet it seems clear, upon the other hand, that the two forms of the sacred drama specific to Italy, the Umbrian Divozione and the Florentine Sacra Rappresentazione, were not a direct outgrowth from the Mystery.
Except that Rosana and her parents are Christian and that the saints protect her, there is nothing to justify the title of Sacra Rappresentazione.
In the Sacra Rappresentazione the religious drama of Italy reached its highest point of development, and produced a form of art peculiar to Florence and the Tuscan cities.
A somewhat earlier composition than La Giostra was La Favola di Orfeo, a dramatic poem similar in form to the Sacra Rappresentazione, with a classical instead of a religious subject.
To bridge the interval between the Divozione, used in Umbria, and the Sacra Rappresentazione, as it appeared at Florence, is rendered impossible by the present lack of documents.
These Umbrian Divozioni form a link between the Laud of the thirteenth and the Sacra Rappresentazione of the fifteenth century.
Still, in form and movement, it adhered to the traditions of the Sacra Rappresentazione, and its originality consisted in the substitution of a Pagan for a Christian fable.
This truth he published in the Sacra Historia, where he rationalised the fables, averring that the gods had been men, and that the myths were exaggerated and distorted records of facts.
The slave-maids of the Vestals ran down the Via Sacra shrieking and calling for aid.
The bankers on the Via Sacra closed their credit books, raised their shutters, and sent trusted clerks off to suburban villas, with due orders how to bury and hide weighty money-bags.
Demetrius seemed guided to the Forum and Via Sacra as if by an inborn instinct.
It was interfered with by the too common cause of trouble in those days, the auri sacra fames, the accursed lust for gold.
The sacra consisted in common anniversary sacrifices, in which the clansmen honoured the gods of the clan, and after them the whole kin, living and dead, were brought together in the service.
As in primitive society no man can belong to more than one kindred, so among the Romans no one could share in the sacra of two gentes--to do so was to confound the ritual and contaminate the purity of the gens.
A good example of the clan sacrifice, in which a whole kinship periodically joins, is afforded by the Roman sacra gentilicia.
And among the higher strata of society, outside of thesesacra privata, carelessness and negligence of the old State cults were steadily on the increase.
The triumphal procession passed along the Sacravia to the Capitol, and thence again to the Circus Maximus, where the ludi were held.
Here the via Sacra turns, in front of the temple of Concordia, to ascend the Capitol.
Let us now descend the Clivus sacer, crossing to the right-hand side of the slope, which the via Sacra now follows, and reach the Forum by the fornix Fabiana.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
