Salii
Americannoun
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“I don’t feel like I’m in a shelter,” said Polina Salii, 11, whose family fled the fighting in Pokrovsk, a town in the east.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
There were also an order of female Salii.
From The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. by Anonymous
Among the Romans, priests called Salii attended to the sacrifices of Mars, and on festival days went about the city dancing with their shields.
From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by Catherine Ann White
From hence the priests of the Sun were called Soli and Solimi in Cilicia, Selli in Epirus, Salii at Rome, all originally priests of fire.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant
Of Rome, the ancīle or sacred buckler which Numa said fell from heaven, and was guarded by priests called Salii.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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