Consualia
Consualia, a festival of the Roman calendar.
What it was like
Games at a hidden altar
Consus had an altar in the Circus Maximus. Varro says the priests held games there, the same games at which, in legend, Romulus' men seized the Sabine women.
Consualia dicta a Conso, quod tum feriae publicae ei deo et in Circo ad aram eius ab sacerdotibus ludi illi, quibus virgines Sabinae raptae
“The Consualia are named from Consus, because then there is a public holiday for that god, and in the Circus at his altar the priests hold those games at which the Sabine maidens were carried off.”
- August 18
The Sabine women are seized at the Consualia - December 15
Consualia (winter)
LATIN LINE OF THE DAY
Scribere me quereris, Velox, epigrammata longa.
“You complain, Velox, that I write long epigrams.”