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
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 White, Catherine Ann
Suppose now that I send my men as messengers, to invite these people to a festival on the day when the Salii, the Leapers, have their games and their feast.
From The Childhood of Rome by Lamprey, Louise
Marindin's article "Salii," Dict. of Antiqq., is very useful and sensible.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
The Salii, priests of Mars, go their rounds, singing old hymns.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman
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