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Ye venerable sages and holy flamens, is there probability in your conjectures, truth in your stories, of another world beyond death; or are they all alike, baseless visions, and fabricated fables?

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

Towards the end of the republic the number of the lesser flamens seems to have diminished.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

Some of the municipal towns in Italy had flamens as well as Rome.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

Afterwards, and long previous to the present date, it was equally open to all ranks; at least, that part of the profession which embraced the flamens, or priests—not of religion generally but of peculiar gods.

From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The boy was led to a trap-door at the back of the altar, while two flamens mounted to a gallery level with the head of the statue.

From Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome by Kingston, William Henry Giles