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
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 were from early times priests of Mars, who danced in armor, and sang old hymns.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman
There were also the Salian virgins, besides another division of the Salii called Agonenses or Collini.
From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Gallini, Giovanni-Andrea
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
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