OSD C. Equitius Cato

Salvete omnes!

Hodie est Kalendis Ianuariis; haec dies fastus est.

"See how Janus appears first in my song
To announce a happy year for you, Germanicus.
Two-headed Janus, source of the silently gliding year,
The only god who is able to see behind him,
Be favourable to the leaders, whose labours win
Peace for the fertile earth, peace for the seas:
Be favourable to the senate and Roman people,
And with a nod unbar the shining temples.
A prosperous day dawns: favour our thoughts and speech!
Let auspicious words be said on this auspicious day.
Let our ears be free of lawsuits then, and banish
Mad disputes now: you, malicious tongues, cease wagging!
See how the air shines with fragrant fire,
And Cilician grains crackle on lit hearths!
The flame beats brightly on the temple's gold,
And spreads a flickering light on the shrine's roof.
Spotless garments make their way to Tarpeian Heights,
And the crowd wear the colours of the festival:
Now the new rods and axes lead, new purple glows,
And the distinctive ivory chair feels fresh weight." - Ovid, Fasti I

"And after he had built the Temple of Vesta he built the Temple of
Ianus. As the God Ianus has two faces so this temple has two gates:
they stand open in time of war and are closed in time of peace. Very
seldom in later times were the gates of the Temple of Ianus shut, but
in Numa's time the gates were never seen open--no, not for a single
day: for the space of over two score years the gates were unopened." -
Padraig Colum, Orpheus: Myths of the Underworld (1937), "Numa the
Law-Giver"

"Janus also has a temple at Rome with double doors, which they call
the gates of war; for the temple always stands open in time of war,
but is closed when peace has come. The latter was a difficult matter,
and it rarely happened, since the realm was always engaged in some
war, as its increasing size brought it into collision with the
barbarous nations which encompassed it round about. But in the time of
Augustus it was closed, after he had overthrown Marc Antony; and
before that, when Marcus Atilius and Titus Manlius were consuls, it
was closed a short time; then war broke out again at once, and it was
opened." - Plutarch, Life of king Numa 20.1-2


The Kalends of January are sacred (as is in fact the entire month) to
the dual-faced god Ianus; Ianus is the god of comings and goings, of
looking to the past and anticipating the future. The god Ianus has a
distinctive appearance in art, as he is often depicted with two faces,
called "Ianus Bifrons". Some sources claim that the reason Janus was
represented in this peculiar fashion was due to the notion that doors
and gates look in two directions. In this way, one of the god's faces
could look forward, while the other looked backward.

The origins of this God vary somewhat, dependent upon the source.
One legend states that Ianus was a mortal who came from Thessaly
and was welcomed into Latium by Camese. The couple are said to have
married, shared the kingdom and had many children together, including
Tiberinus, the Tiber River-God. Upon the death of Camese, Janus
became the sole ruler and granted Saturn sanctuary when that ancient
God was fleeing from Iuppiter. As the first King of Latium, Ianus
ensured a time of peace, honesty and abundance for his people...an era
known as the Golden Age. He introduced money, cultivation of the
fields and laws. He is also said to have later married a nymph named
Iuturna, whose spring and shrine were located closed to his temple in
the Forum of Rome. One of their children was Fons (also known as
Fontus), God of Springs. It was only after his death that Ianus was
deified and became the Protector of the City.

Ianus was well-respected and highly-regarded as a god by the ancient
Romans and his dual-faced image could be found on most city gates
and many Roman coins. Given his role as Guardian of Gates, his
position as the god of Beginnings and the esteem of having the first
month of the year named in his honor, it is apparent that Janus played
a significant role in Roman myth and religion. He was invoked at the
start of each new day and often referred to as the Porter of Heaven -
the "Ianitor Coeli". He particularly presided over all that is
double-edged in life and represented the transition between the
primitive and civilization.

The temple in the Argiletum consisted of two gates; the cult statue
was between them. It was a very ancient statue; the author Pliny the
Elder mentions it as proof that the sculptor's art existed in Italy in
times most ancient (Natural History 36.58). The god was portrayed with
two bearded heads. The fingers of his hands were placed in strange
positions, which Pliny interpreted as an indication of the number 355,
which he thought was a reference to the number of days of the oldest
Roman calendar.

The temple of the Argiletum with the Gates of War was not the only
place where the Romans worshipped Ianus. On the other side of the
Tiber, an altar was dedicated to this god on the 'hill of Ianus'
(Ianiculum). A second altar was erected on the hill Oppius, which
played a role in the ceremonies when a boy became a man. The consul
Marcus Duillius built a temple on the Vegetable Market (Forum
Holitorium), after his naval victory off Mylae (260 BCE). It was
rebuilt by the emperor Tiberius. In this temple, twelve altars were
erected, dedicated to the twelve months (one of them, Ianuarius, was
perhaps called after the god). Finally, there was the Arch of the
four-faced Ianus, "Ianus Quadrifons", at the Velabrum.


Valete bene and Happy New Year!

Cato




SOURCES

Ovid, Colum, Wikipedia

What would Brett Murphy translate as?



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Monday, January 1, 2007
1:05 AM Central Standard Time
Dateline: the World

Fellow Domani, friends of Elpoepia and Nova Roma, members of Christo-Pagans Unite and Tara-Skryne, and all other friends:

In the dark and quiet of the first moments of the New Year, after the parties and drinking are done, and friends and loved ones are called, and the celebrations are over, is when I sit, quiet in the night. Just sit and listen. Close my eyes sometimes and feel fate and time weaving around, laying out paths for some, tying off for others. I always sit and hope for renewal. Hope for change. Preferably positive. Sometimes, it comes. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes in a way I don't expect.
I donnae' know about some of you, but 2007 feels like such a year of change. I personally feel a stillness, almost like a profound waiting. It scares me, but in a good way. A positive way. I think maybe in a positive way for everyone. Perhaps forever. Who knows? I choose to remain optimistic.
And so, I sit her, listening to a Nickleback song, that feels like it is heir to Lennon's "Imagine". I listen to one line:

"And as we lie beneath the stars, we realize how small we are..."

It makes me feel alone for a moment, till I think about how much a part of the whole I am. It's the chorus that drives it home:

"If everyone care, and nobody cried,...
If everyone loved, and nobody lied,...
If everyone shared, and swallowed their pride,...
Then we'd see the day when nobody died..."

I know that we all, in one way or another, hope for that day. Perhaps in this year, a start towards that day will come. I stay hopeful.
And so I sit, with the sounds of sleep in the air, and I send my words out to my fellow Domani, fellow magickfolk, and fellows among humanity. My nation's motto: "There's magick in believing..." Believe in the hope of a better day, is all I suggest and ask, and do all you can to help bring it about.
For the time being, I hope the morning finds you awake and well rested from sleep and dream, or ready to send you off to them. As is said among my people, I wish you all Good Dreaming and Blessed Be, both now and always.

Always,
-Shadow

There's magick in believing...
-The Domain and Realms
http://thedomainandrealms.batcave.net

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A. Tullia Scholastica Quiritibus S.P.D.

Yahoo doesn¹t like properly written Latin today, though it seems to have
accepted it in the past, so let¹s try again...a fuller version is posted
elsewhere.



Ego, Aula Tullia Scholastica, hac re ipsa decus Novae Romae me defensuram,
et semper pro populo senatuque Novae Romae acturam esse sollemniter IVRO.

Ego, Aula Tullia Scholastica, officio praetricis Novae Romae accepto, deos
deasque Romae in omnibus meae vitae publicae temporibus culturam, et
virtutes Romanas publica privataque vita me persecuturam esse IVRO.

Ego, Aula Tullia Scholastica, Religioni Romanae me fauturam et eam
defensuram, et numquam contra eius statum publicum me acturam esse, ne quid
detrimenti capiat IVRO.

Ego, Aula Tullia Scholastica officiis muneris praetricis me quam optime
functuram esse praeterea IVRO.

Meo civis Novae Romae honore, coram deis deabusque populi Romani, et
voluntate favoreque eorum, ego munus praetricis una cum iuribus,
privilegiis, muneribus et officiis comitantibus ACCIPIO.

For the benefit of the incoming curule aediles and any other women who wish
to take the Latin oath, there is a typo in the line beginning with culturam;
the file has culturum, the masculine version. This does not alter the
meaning of the text.

Valete.


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Salvete Omines,

I was wondering about the posting of magisterial oaths on the
NovaRoma-Announce list. I have seen that a few have post both their
magisterial oaths and their statement of candidacy. I'm not sure about
what should be posted by citizens on the list but it does say "We
don´t recommend here the posting of magisterial oaths." on the main
page of the list. As a result of these, I have been getting multiple
emails of the same kind. I find this rather irritating as I receive
numerous emails already as Im sure most do as well. How do others feel?

Valete,

G. Flavius Ouf. Ductoris
Scribe Sodalitas Egressus
http://au.geocities.com/dkwillis.rm/ductoris.html

Legio I Australis
Legatus Legionis Legio I Australis
http://au.geocities.com/dkwillis.rm/legio.html

"Si vis pacem, para bellum"
("If you want peace, prepare for war!")
- Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Salve Gaius Flavius Ductoris

Your are right and our oath's should only be posted to this list.
Most of have been sending it to the Announce list as well but as
you point out that is not required nor encouraged.

So please post your Oath here and not on the Announce list.


Vale

Tiberius Galerius Paulinus

F. Galerius Aurelianus G. Flavio Ouf. Ductoris sal.

I have been a citizen of NR for coming up on five years and it has become a
traditional practice to post magisterial oaths on the mainlist. Any
organization with a dedicated core membership is likely to develop traditions and
customs that may differ slightly from official rules. Personally, I like to see
the new magistrates post their oaths of office because an oath given in any
form means quite a lot to me on a very personal level. An oath binds one
person to another or to an organization or to a state and is a sacred formula.
There are few things that demonstrate pietas and gravitas than an oath that
is given and well kept, just as there are few actions that are more despicable
than a person who gives their oath and breaks it. When one swears an oath,
they are calling upon their God or Dii Immortales to witness a promise made
to another person or, in this case, the organization that is Nova Roma. This
is far more important than to be concerned about a few extra emails. If you
do not wish to read a magisterial oath, you can just delete it very quickly
but I do not believe that you will find a great many Nova Romans who would
wish to see the practice stopped.

Happy New Year. Vadite in pace Cereris.


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>
> A. Tullia Scholastica C. Flavio Ductori quiritibus S.P.D.
>
>
>
>
> Salvete Omines,
>
> I was wondering about the posting of magisterial oaths on the
> NovaRoma-Announce list. I have seen that a few have post both their
> magisterial oaths and their statement of candidacy. I'm not sure about
> what should be posted by citizens on the list but it does say "We
> don´t recommend here the posting of magisterial oaths." on the main
> page of the list.
>
> ATS: This policy may well be changed. Some of our citizens do not
> receive the ML, and therefore do not know whether a magistrate has taken the
> oath or not. Some years ago, we had an elected aedilis who never showed up to
> take the oath. All important announcements should be duplicated on the
> Announcements list; if you find that inconvenient, set one or the other for
> read onsite.
>
>
> As a result of these, I have been getting multiple
> emails of the same kind. I find this rather irritating as I receive
> numerous emails already as Im sure most do as well.
>
> ATS: That may be a minor inconvenience, but the citizenry has the right
> to know who has taken the oath of office. All of it...those who get the ML,
> and those who do not, but get Announcements. There is also another reason for
> some of us who prefer to post the horkoi on the announcements list, one which
> should not escape you. Wait until Yahoo triplicates a message on its own, or
> someone on moderation repeats the message four or five times because it wasn¹t
> approved immediately, maybe because the moderation notice wasn¹t delivered to
> the only moderator who is awake at the time. Both are improvements over lost
> messages, however. At this time of year, you may expect a large number of
> oaths of office. You don¹t have to read them beyond the first line, to see
> who is taking the oath for what position, but the citizens deserve to see
> them, and should see them in both Latin and English, as befits this
> organization.
>
> I take it you don¹t want to be a list moderator, in which case you would
> not only get the messages, but moderation notices, and other ones at your
> option. I moderate maybe 15 lists, and it is my duty to deal with all of the
> above, as well as other matters.
>
> How do others feel?
>
> ATS: See above.
>
> Valete,
>
> G. Flavius Ouf. Ductoris
> Scribe Sodalitas Egressus
> http://au.geocities.com/dkwillis.rm/ductoris.html
>
> Legio I Australis
> Legatus Legionis Legio I Australis
> http://au.geocities.com/dkwillis.rm/legio.html
>
> "Si vis pacem, para bellum"
> ("If you want peace, prepare for war!")
> * Flavius Vegetius Renatus

A. Tullia Scholastica
Praetrix
Interpres linguae Latinae
Caput decuriae interpretum
Magistra sodalitatis Latinitatis
Coryphaea Sodalitatis Musarum
Arkhousa Sodalitatis Graeciae (and lots more once the senior magistrates
get imperium and can appoint their scribae...)

>
>
>

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Ego, L. Arminius Faustus, hac re ipsa decus Novae Romae me defensurum, et
semper pro populo senatuque
Novae Romae acturum esse sollemniter IVRO.

Ego, L. Arminius Faustus, officio consulis interpone Novae Romae accepto,
deos deasque Romae in omnibus
meae vitae publicae temporibus culturum, et virtutes Romanas publica
privataque vita me persecuturum esse IVRO.

Ego, L. Arminius Faustus, Religioni Romanae me fauturum et eam defensurum,
et numquam contra eius statum publicum me acturum esse, ne quid detrimenti
capiat IVRO.

Ego, L. Arminius Faustus, consulis officiis muneris me quam optime functurum
esse praeterea IVRO.

Meo civis Novae Romae honore, coram deis deabusque populi Romani, et
voluntate favoreque eorum, ego munus consulis, L. Arminius Faustus una cum
iuribus, privilegiis, muneribus et officiis comitantibus ACCIPIO.

--
Valete bene in pacem deorum,
L. Arminius Faustus

"Vigilando, agendo, bene consulendo, prospera omnia cedunt" - Salustius


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Salvete, colleague,

I understand the will of hands-on just on the first day. We should discuss
this more at lenght on the Senate, for sure. There are many �aspects� to do
and look before. And other priorities the Senate gave us more �hands-on�,
like on the last SenatusConsultum.

The Religio Romana is our priority, for sure. So, on 1 kal ianuarius the
elected consules perfomred a series os rituals. Let�s be on it today.

Valete bene in pacem deorum,
L. Arminius Faustus CSL


2006/12/31, Tiberius Galerius Paulinus <spqr753@...>:

>
> Salvete Romans
>
> I would like to thank you for the high honor that you have bestowed
> on me and that I have now taken up as Consul of Nova Roma. I also
> wish to convey to you some of what I will endeavor to do in the
> coming weeks and months.
>
> The Senate of Nova Roma adopted a set of priorities on 31 August
> 2757. These priorities where reaffirm by Consuls Gaius Fabius Buteo
> Modianus and Pompeia Minucia Strabo by edict in 2759. My Colleague
> and I will reaffirm them as well.
>
> The first priority adopted was
>
> "The Religio Romana; it's promotion, preservation, protection, and
> diffusion throughout the communities of Nova Roma."
>
> We can not go forward with the "promotion, preservation, protection,
> and diffusion"� of the Religio Romana while the Collegium
> Pontificum and the other organs of the Religio Romana are at
> loggerheads.
>
> So in an effort to bring about reconciliation within the Collegium
> Pontificum,to study the issues required to move the Collegiums
> Pontificum forward and to advance the purpose for which Nova Roma
> was founded, I will ask the members of the Collegium Pontificum and
> the Senate of Nova Roma to facilitate a face to face meeting of the
> entire Collegium Pontificum.
>
> While some will dismiss this effort as pie in the sky and will say
> it will accomplish nothing but broken noses, I say we have to try.
> For if we do not try,we can not do and if we do not DO, why are we
> here.
>
> If the face to face meeting ends in the current deadlock we have
> lost nothing but some time and some money. But if it succeeds, even
> a little, we will have moved Nova Roma forward and will have
> something to build on.
>
> The time and place of the meeting will be determined by me in
> consultation with the members of the Collegium Pontificum.
>
> The Senate will be asked to appropriate funds for this effort and
> the expenditure of these funds will be accounted for with receipts
> and will be used for such items as rental of facilities, food,
> nominal contributions to international travel and other expenditures
> to accomplish the goals set for the meeting.
>
> Individuals attending will be responsible for their own
> transportation costs, their lodging costs and well as some costs
> toward meals.
>
> I have asked the two members of the Collegium Pontificum, Marcus
> Antonius Gryllus Graecus and Gnaeus Salvius Astur, who live outside
> the United States and who have the longest distance to travel, if
> they would commit to attending the meeting. I await their response
> to my letter send by email.
>
> What I need from each of you is for you to talk to your friends in
> the Collegium Pontificum and in a positive way encourage them to
> attend. 2760 is the tenth year of the founding of Nova Roma and as
> far as I know the Collegium Pontificum has never had a face to face
> meeting set up solely for that purpose.
>
> I believe it is long over due. I hope you agree.
>
> I also ask that we make our tenth year our best year and that you
> bless with your prayers the Religious officials, the magistrates and
> all Nova Romans that we may work together in Concordia.
>
> Valete
>
> Tiberius Galerius Paulinus
> Consul
>
>
>

--
Valete bene in pacem deorum,
L. Arminius Faustus

"Vigilando, agendo, bene consulendo, prospera omnia cedunt" - Salustius


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Salvete created magistrates,

Please, I know everyone is filled with joy (and job) by coming into
the magistratures. However, I recall kal ianuaries is a a day for
prayers ans rituals of entering office.

Please, let 2 kal for starting making official comunications and
politics. I urge you all official comunication be done throught
edictum.

I new also urge the others to observe the fasces changing of months.
On ianuarius, roman uses allowed the fasces for the Senior. So, avoid
unnecessary attrition between your colleagues by naivette.

I advice you to have a close agreement with your colleagues before
making any statement on main list.

--
Valete bene in pacem deorum,
L. Arminius Faustus CSL

"Vigilando, agendo, bene consulendo, prospera omnia cedunt" - Salustius

Salvete,

This calendar is valid for 2006 as well?

Valete bene in pacem deorum,
L. Arminius Faustus CSL

--- In Nova-Roma@yahoogroups.com, "Q. Caecilius Metellus"
<metellus@...> wrote:

>
> Q. Metellus Quiritibus sal.
>
> For the month of January:
>
> 1 Kal. Ian. A F
> 2 a.d. IV Non. Ian. B F Ater
> 3 a.d. III Non. Ian. C F Nundina
> 4 pr. Non. Ian. D C
> 5 Non. Ian. E F
> 6 a.d. VIII Id. Ian. F F Ater
> 7 a.d. VII Id. Ian. G C
> 8 a.d. VI Id. Ian. H C
> 9 a.d. V Id. Ian. A NP Agonium/-ia/-alia*
> 10 a.d. IV Id. Ian. B EN
> 11 a.d. III Id. Ian. C NP Carmentalia (Nun.)
> 12 pr. Id. Ian. D C
> 13 Id. Ian. E NP
> 14 a.d. XIX Kal. Feb. F EN Ater
> 15 a.d. XVIII Kal. Feb. G NP Carmentalia
> 16 a.d. XVII Kal. Feb. H C
> 17 a.d. XVI Kal. Feb. A C
> 18 a.d. XV Kal. Feb. B C
> 19 a.d. XIV Kal. Feb. C F Nun.
> 20 a.d. XIII Kal. Feb. D C
> 21 a.d. XII Kal. Feb. E C
> 22 a.d. XI Kal. Feb. F C
> 23 a.d. X Kal. Feb. G C
> 24 a.d. IX Kal. Feb. H C
> 25 a.d. VIII Kal. Feb. A C
> 26 a.d. VII Kal. Feb. B C
> 27 a.d. VI Kal. Feb. C F Nun.
> 28 a.d. V Kal. Feb. D C
> 29 a.d. IV Kal. Feb. E C
> 30 a.d. III Kal. Feb. F C
> 31 pr. Kal. Feb. G C
>
> Note: This is not the official calendar. A vote to confirm the

official

> calendar has been called by the Collegium Pontificum, and the

results

> shall be posted within the next two weeks. In the calendar above,

the

> Lex Hortensia is observed, with nundinae falling on the C nundinal

letter.

>
> *For discussion on the name of this day, see Scullard, H.H.

_Festivals

> and Ceremonies of the Roman Republic_. c1981, Thames and Hudson. p.
> 60-61, among others.
>
> As always, I'm happy to answer any questions, hear any comments,

address

> any concerns, etc., you may have. I can be reached via phone or

email

> (metellus 'at' cinci 'dot' rr 'dot' com). If phone is your

preference,

> please write me and we can work out a time good for both of us.
>
> Optime Valete et Felicem Annum Novum,
>
> Quintus Caecilius Metellus,
> Pontifex
>

Lucius Arminius Faustus S.P.D.

There is a constant rain ouside, and I searched a cover. The blessing
of the rain means the purification, according the roman uses. I recall
the rain and fog prevented Hannibal to lay siege of Rome, and accept
this as a signal of gods endless protection. So, I urge the gods
accept this ritual on the first day of ianuarius, according the use of
my predecessor, according he used for previous consules

"[The text of this ritual is the same as the text used by Gn. Salvius
Astur on January 1st, 2004. I hope future consuls will continue this
tradition].." - K. F. B. Modianus, consular

I ask the Gods for a successful consulship for myself, and for my
colleague. So, after on my lararium performing the prayers for the
domestic gods (since no auspice public and be taken by a man without
private auspices) I make this:

Praefatio

Iane pater, te hoc ture commovendo bonas preces precor, uti sies
volens propitius mihi et Senatui Populoque Novae Romae. [Father Ianus,
by offering this incense to you I pray good prayers, so that you may
be propitious to me and the Senate and People of Nova Roma.] Incense
is placed in the focus of the altar.

Mars pater, te hoc ture commovendo bonas preces precor, uti sies
volens propitius mihi et Senatui Populoque Novae Romae. [Father Mars,
by offering this incense to you I pray good prayers, so that you may
be propitious to me and the Senate and People of Nova Roma.] Incense
is placed in the focus of the altar.

Quirine pater, te hoc ture commovendo bonas preces precor, uti sies
volens propitius mihi et Senatui Populoque Novae Romae. [Father
Quirinus, by offering this incense to you I pray good prayers, so that
you may be propitious to me and the Senate and People of Nova Roma.]
Incense is placed in the focus of the altar.

Iane pater, uti te ture commovendo bonas preces bene precatus sum,
eiusdem rei ergo macte vino inferio esto. [Father Ianus, as by
offering to you the incense virtuous prayers were well prayed, for the
sake of this be honored by this humble wine.] Libation of wine is
made.

Mars pater, uti te ture commovendo bonas preces bene precatus sum,
eiusdem rei ergo macte vino inferio esto. [Father Mars, as by offering
to you the incense virtuous prayers were well prayed, for the sake of
this be honored by this humble wine.] Libation of wine is made.

Quirine pater, uti te ture commovendo bonas preces bene precatus sum,
eiusdem rei ergo macte vino inferio esto. [Father Quirinus, as by
offering to you the incense virtuous prayers were well prayed, for the
sake of this be honored by this humble wine.] Libation of wine is
made.

Hands are washed in preparation for the praecatio.

Precatio

Iuppiter Optime Maxime, rex Deorum, qui res publicas Novas Romanas
nunc custodit defenditque perinde ac res publicas patrum nostrorum
Romanorum custodivit defenditque, tibi fieri oportet in hoc tempore
initii culignam vini dapi, eius rei ergo hac illace dape pullucenda
esto. [Iuppiter Best and Greatest, king of the Gods, who protects and
defends the public affairs of Nova Roma just as he protected and
defended the public affairs of our Roman fathers, to you it is proper
for a cup of wine to be given in this time of beginning, for the sake
of this thing may you be honored by this feast offering]. Libation of
wine is made.

Iuno, regina Deorum, qui materne nunc Senatum Populumque Novae Romae
nutrit perinde ac Senatum Populumque Romanum in tempore partum
nostrorum nutrivit, tibi fieri oportet in hoc tempore initii culignam
vini dapi, eius rei ergo hac illace dape pullucenda esto. [Iuno, queen
of the Gods, who maternally nurtures the Senate and People of Nova
Roma just as she nurtured the Senate and People of Rome in the time of
our fathers, to you it is proper for a cup of wine to be given in this
time of beginning, for the sake of this thing may you be honored by
this feast offering]. Libation of wine is made.

Minerva, sapientia aeterna, qui recte res publicas Novas Romanas ducit
perinde ac res publicas patrum nostrorum Romanorum duxit, tibi fieri
oportet in hoc tempore initii culignam vini dapi, eius rei ergo hac
illace dape pullucenda esto. [Minerva, eternal wisdom, who rightly
guides the public affairs of Nova Roma just as she rightly guided the
public affairs of our Roman fathers, to you it is proper for a cup of
wine to be given in this time of beginning, for the sake of this thing
may you be honored by this feast offering]. Libation of wine is made.

Salus, benefactrix Senatus Populique Romani et fideiussorix salutis
nostrae, qui Novam Romam conservat perinde ac Romam antiquam
conservavit, tibi fieri oportet in hoc tempore initii culignam vini
dapi, eius rei ergo hac illace dape pullucenda esto. [Salus,
benefactor of the Roman Senate and People and guarantor of our
well-being, who preserves Nova Roma just as she preserved ancient
Rome, to you it is proper for a cup of wine to be given in this time
of beginning, for the sake of this thing may you be honored by this
feast offering]. Libation of wine is made.

Hands are washed in preparation for the redditio.

Redditio

Iuppiter Optime Maxime, rex Deorum, macte istace dape pollucenda esto,
macte vino inferio esto. [Iuppiter Best and Greatest, king of the
Gods, may you be honoured by this feast offering, may you be honored
by the humble wine.] Libation of wine is made, and an offering of cake
is made.

Iuno, regina Deorum, macte istace dape pollucenda esto, macte vino
inferio esto. [Iuno, queen of the Gods, may you be honored by this
feast offering, may you be honored by the humble wine.] Libation of
wine is made, and an offering of cake is made.

Minerva, sapientia aeterna, macte istace dape pollucenda esto, macte
vino inferio esto. [Minerva, eternal wisdom, may you be honored by
this feast offering, may you be honored by the humble wine.] Libation
of wine is made, and an offering of cake is made.

Salus, benefactrix Novae Romae, macte istace dape pollucenda esto,
macte vino inferio esto. [Salus, benefactrix of Nova Roma, may you be
honored by this feast offering, may you be honored by the humble
wine.] Libation of wine is made, and an offering of cake is made.

Quirine pater, uti te ture commovendo bonas preces bene precatus sum,
eiusdem rei ergo macte vino inferio esto. [Father Quirinus, as by
offering to you the incense virtuous prayers were well prayed, for the
sake of this be honored by this humble wine.] Libation of wine is
made.

Mars pater, uti te ture commovendo bonas preces bene precatus sum,
eiusdem rei ergo macte vino inferio esto. [Father Mars, as by offering
to you the incense virtuous prayers were well prayed, for the sake of
this be honored by this humble wine.] Libation of wine is made.

Iane pater, uti te ture commovendo bonas preces bene precatus sum,
eiusdem rei ergo macte vino inferio esto. [Father Ianus, as by
offering to you the incense virtuous prayers were well prayed, for the
sake of this be honored by this humble wine.] Libation of wine is
made.

Dea Vesta, custos ignis sacri, macte vino inferio esto. [Goddess
Vesta, guardian of the sacred fire, be honoured by this humble wine.]
Libation of wine is made.

Illicet. [It is over.]

At this time I profaned some of the cakes and consumed it. I then made
some personal devotions, and then I reaffirmed my oath of office that
I had taken a few hours before (which I posted to the Nova Roma main
list).

Piaculum

I concluded with a piaculum to Iuppiter Optimus Maximus, Iuno,
Miverva, and Salus in the event I might have done anything during the
ceremony that might be displeasing to the Immortals.

Iuppiter Optime Maxmime, Iuno, Minerva et Salus, Di Immortales, si
quidquam tibi in hac caerimonia displicet, hoc vino inferio veniam
peto et vitium meum expio. [Iuppiter Optimus Maximus, Iuno, Minerva,
and Salus, Immortal Gods, if anything in this ceremony is displeasing
to you, with this humble wine I ask forgiveness and expiate my fault.]
Libation of wine is made.


May the Immortal Gods of Rome bless the citizens and future Citizens
of Nova Roma.

VAKETE BENE IN PACEM DEORUM,
Lucius Arminius Faustus
Consul



"Vigilando, agendo, bene consulendo, prospera omnia cedunt" - Salustius

Gaius Fabius Buteo Modianus Lucio Arminio Fausto salutem dicit

It is encouraging to see this tradition continued. Let us pray that with
every year the Consuls continue this practice.

Vale:

Gaius Fabius Buteo Modianus

On 1/1/07, Lucius Arminius Faustus <lafaustus@...> wrote:
>
> Lucius Arminius Faustus S.P.D.
>
> There is a constant rain ouside, and I searched a cover. The blessing
> of the rain means the purification, according the roman uses. I recall
> the rain and fog prevented Hannibal to lay siege of Rome, and accept
> this as a signal of gods endless protection. So, I urge the gods
> accept this ritual on the first day of ianuarius, according the use of
> my predecessor, according he used for previous consules
>
> "[The text of this ritual is the same as the text used by Gn. Salvius
> Astur on January 1st, 2004. I hope future consuls will continue this
> tradition].." - K. F. B. Modianus, consular
>
> I ask the Gods for a successful consulship for myself, and for my
> colleague. So, after on my lararium performing the prayers for the
> domestic gods (since no auspice public and be taken by a man without
> private auspices) I make this:
>


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Lex Curiata de Imperio

We, the Lictors of the Comita Curiata of Nova Roma, recognize and
accept the results of the elections in the Comitia Centuriata for
consules and praetores, and the election in the Comitia Populi Tributa
for aediles curules. By this lex de imperio we confer imperium as
defined in the Lex Arminia Equitia de Imperio upon these magistrates.

Consules: Lucius Arminius Faustus and Tiberius Galerius Paulinus

Praetores: Aula Tullia Scholastica and Gaius Equitius Cato

Aediles Curules: Tita Artoria Marcelia and Iulia Caesar Cytheris Aege

This lex de imperio shall become effective on Kal. Ian. MMDCCLX a.u.c.
(1 Jan 2007 CE) and shall remain in effect until pridie Kal. Ian
MMDCCLX a.u.c. (31 Dec 2007 CE).

Given under our hands pridie Kal. Ian. MMDCCLVIX a.u.c. (31 Dec 2006 CE)

Gaius Popillius Laenas
Stephanus Ullerius Venator Piperbarbus
Gnaeus Equitius Marinus
Gaius Fabius Buteo Modianus

NEW YEAR'S RITUAL FOR IANUS

PRAEPARATIO:
In preparation for the rite, I woke before sunrise and I cleaned and
incensed my shrine to Ianus. The weather was wet, and a rain fell, but
it was peaceful. The altar surface was washed down with vervain and
water, and then wrapped three times with woolen fillets. Next, I
bathed in preparation, then garbed in toga, capite velato I offered to
my lares and lit the focus with prayers and offerings to Mother Vesta.


PRAEFATIO:
- Salutatio: "Janus, Come! The New Year is here, come and renew the
sun." (Ausonius 3.5)

- Silentium: "Procul, O procul, este profane!"

I then perform a final cleansing, aspersing area and washing my hands:
"Haec aqua a corpore impuritates eluat, ut pluvial aera purgat."

- Invocatio of Testori:
"To Jove and the Gods I deservedly give great thanks. Jove Supreme,
look down and preserve us, I do beseech you by your good genius. Come
forth! We wish for you."

"Iuppiter Best and Greatest and Gods Immortal, by offering this
incense to you I pray good prayers, that you will look kindly and
favorably upon me and the Senate and People of Nova Roma"
Placed incense in focus.

"Iuppiter Best and Greatest and Gods Immortal, in addition to my
virtuous offering of incense, be honored by this offering of wine in
libation and look kindly and favorably upon me and the Senate and
People of Nova Roma."
Libation is poured to the Gods.


SACRIFICATIO:
Hands are washed again.
"Hear me Father Janus, who was before all the Gods, from whom all
things proceed, graciously lend your ears to my prayers, on this, the
Kalends of January. Father Janus, by whatever name pleases you most,
attend and bless the Senate and People of Nova Roma, and with a nod
open Your gleaming gates onto peaceful precincts."

Offer incense:
"Father Janus, by offering this incense to You I pray good prayers,
that you will look kindly and favorably upon me and the Senate and
People of Nova Roma."




Offer Libation:
"Father Janus, in addition to my virtuous offering of incense, be
honored by this offering of wine in libation and look kindly and
favorably upon me and the Senate and People of Nova Roma."

- Praecatio:
"Father Janus, to You it is proper for offerings to be given in this
time of beginning. On this the 1st day of January, accept these
offerings of Frankincense, Libum cakes, honey and wine and bless the
entire nation of Nova Roma. Janus, may You be pleased by these
offerings and may the Senate and People of Nova Roma have what is
goodly, auspicious, fruitful, fortunate, and wholesome."

Offer Incense:
"Father Janus, I offer You this Frankincense, so that You may be
increased and so that You may look kindly and favorably upon me and
the Senate and People of Nova Roma."

Offer Libum Cakes:
"Father Janus, to You I pray good prayers, offering You this pile of
cakes, so that you might willing be favorable to me and the Senate and
People of Nova Roma."

Offer honey:
"Father Janus, I offer You this honey, so that You may be increased
and so that You may look kindly and favorably upon me and the Senate
and People of Nova Roma."

Offer wine:
"Father Janus, for the same reasons given in the good prayers while
offering You incense, piled cakes and honey, may You accept and be
honored by this portion of wine I pour."

"Father Janus, may the Senate and People of Nova Roma have what is
goodly, auspicious, fruitful, fortunate and wholesome. For these
reasons have I this day offered these sacrifices to you, Janus, God of
good beginnings."


LITATIO:
"To Jove and the Gods Immortal I deservedly give great thanks for
attending and bearing witness to my rite."
I offer incense and Libation.

"Mother Vesta, I thank You with this offering of incense and libation."

"No more, Gods on high, do I ask of You today; it is enough."







PIACULUM:
"Gods Immortal, if anything I have done in this ceremony has been
incorrect, incomplete or otherwise displeasing to You, I ask
forgiveness with this offering of incense."

"Gods Immortal, if anything I have done in this ceremony has been
incorrect, incomplete or otherwise displeasing to You, I ask
forgiveness with this portion of wine I pour."


PERLITATIO:
I observe any signs ritual offerings were accepted.
I received favorable signs.





Valete and Happy New Year!
Lucius Cassius Cornutus
Sacerdos Iani

Father Janus is one of the oldest Roman Gods. He is the God of
beginnings, gates and doorways and also is seen in some cases as God
of creation. As beginner of all things and all acts he would be
offered to first in a ritual that called in a group of deities. Cicero
wrote, "In all matters, beginnings and ends are the vital features.
This is why they cite Janus first in the sacrifices. (Nat Deor. II
67)" Janus says to Ovid in the Fasti that He is recited first in all
prayers so that "through Me, the Doorkeeper, you may attain access to
whatever Gods you please (Fasti I.173-4).

Janus has many titles – Geminus (the seminal seed), Patulcius (the
opener), Clusius (vault of heaven), Matutinus (the dawning light),
Junonius (associated with Juno on the Kalends), and Consivius (the
beginner of life).

Father Janus is often shown with two faces, one looking forward – the
other backward. Ovid explains Janus' biform is because he is Guardian
of every household's front doorway, with one face directed outward
that "views the people", and one face that looks inward towards the
Lar Familiaris of the family's shrine. Ovid also draws the connection
of doorkeeper with the dawning sun, calling Him "the ianitor of the
celestial court. (Who) observes the east and the west together (Fasti
I. 135-40). When the calendar was changed making January the beginning
of the New Year, the month was named for Janus and January 1st was
dedicated to him. There is a festival on the Agonalia in January when
the Rex Sacrorum would sacrifice a Ram to Janus. There is also the
17th of August where people offer keys to His fire to bless their homes.

The oldest temple in the Forum Holitorium in Rome was the Temple of
Janus built in 260 B.C.E. by Gaius Duilius, dedicated on August 17th
(the Portunalia). But the most important shrine of Janus in Rome was
the Temple of Janus Geminus, which was possibly a double bridge that
brought the Sacra Via over the Cloaca to the Comitium. This structure
had doors at each end, which could be closed. The temple's foundation
is connected with Numa Pompilius and was associated with war and peace
in Rome. When Rome was at peace the doors were shut, but when the
Romans were at war the doors were left open so Janus could come to
their aid if needed because during the war with Titus Tatius a flood
of scalding water gushed forth from the temple pushing the enemy back.
When the basilica was built in 179 B.C.E. the shrine was moved and
apparently rebuilt not as a double bridge, but a smaller structure
depicted on the back of some coins of Nero, shown with doors shut
signifying peace. In Domitian's time it was moved again to the Forum
of Nerva where he replaced the small rectangular structure (ianus)
with an image of Janus Quadrifrons (with four faces).

Father Janus is worshipped ritus Romanus and some offerings to Him
include a ram (on the Agonalia), incense, wine and cakes.

Valete,
Lucius Cassius Cornutus
Sacerdos Iani

OSD C. Equitius Cato

Salvete omnes!

Ego, Gaius Equitius Cato, hac re ipsa decus Novae Romae me defensurum,
et semper pro populo senatuque Novae Romae acturum esse sollemniter IVRO.

Ego, Gaius Equitius Cato, officio praetoris Novae Romae accepto, deos
deasque Romae in omnibus meae vitae publicae temporibus culturum, et
virtutes Romanas publica privataque vita me persecuturum esse IVRO.

Ego, Gaius Equitius Cato, Religioni Romanae me fauturum et eam
defensurum, et numquam contra eius statum publicum me acturum esse,
ne quid detrimenti capiat IVRO.

Ego, Gaius Equitius Cato, praetoris officiis muneris me quam
optime functurum esse praeterea IVRO.

Meo civis Novae Romae honore, coram deis deabusque populi Romani, et
voluntate favoreque eorum, ego munus praetoris una cum iuribus,
privilegiis, muneribus et officiis comitantibus ACCIPIO.

Valete bene,

Gaius Equitius Cato

OSD C. Equitius Cato

Salvete omnes!

As I promised during the election campaign, the workings of my
praetorian office will be fully viewable by the citizens of the
Republic (although only members of my cohors and various other guests
may actually post there).

Here is the link to it:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/officivm-c-eqvti-catonis-praetoris

It is absolutely vital to me that the workings of my office be open
and available to the whole citizenry; in turn, I ask that members of
my cohors and others use this avenue of communication with me rather
than private email for the very same reason. There will, of course,
be exceptions, but those will only prove the "rule", as it were.

Valete bene!

Cato

Salvete omnes

I must request your pardon: in the count of Senators votings that I did for Item II there is an involuntary mistake since I did not enter one UTI ROGAS and I changed one ABSTINEO by one ANTIQUO.

Therefore the results are:

Results of Item II: Uti Rogas, 13; Antiquo, 12; Abstineo, 2. = THE ITEM II IS PASSED



Valete bene



M·CVRIATIVS·COMPLVTENSIS
TRIBVNVS PLEBIS
NOVA ROMA








Copy-paste of the votations:

ITEM II: OFFICIAL BOUNDARIES OF CANADA ORIENTALIS AND CANADA OCCIDENTALIS
PROVINCIAE



1.. [FAC] ANTIQVO: It is not necessary, this kind of organizational aspects should be in the hands of the governors passing not for the Senatus.
2.. [LAF] ANTIQVO
3.. [MBA] ANTIQVO - Internal bounderies are the responsibilty of the governor
4.. [ECF] VTI ROGAS
5.. [CCS] VTI ROGAS: An extraordinary decision for Senate to take, but provinces are requesting this decision and I see no reason to say no.
6.. [GEM] VTI ROGAS -- I understand the need for the Senate to define the boundaries of these two provinces due to ongoing changes in the geography of the Northwest Passage. I remain skeptical of the advisability of the Senate defining the interior regions of any province, and I recommend that the Senate revisit this issue next year after consultation with the two Canadian governors. I hope that at that time the authority for defining interior regions will be returned to the two Canadian governors.
7.. [LECA] ANTIQVO: I agree with Octavius
8.. [GFBM] VTI ROGAS
9.. [CFBQ] VTI ROGAS
10.. [QFM] ANTIQVO The Provincial Praetors have the Imperium to divide their provinces as they see fit to administer. They need not come to the Senate for confirmation. The Senate does not want to revisit every minor province boundary redivision each time it happens. That's not our job.
11.. [CFD] ANTIQVO: Each governor may organize his/her province by his own discretion. This contains both the organization of his provicial staff and the territorial layout inside the provinical boundaries. It isn´t necessary to get a Snatus Consultum about this.
12.. [TGP] ANTIQUO (No) I agree that the overall boundaries of our provinces should to be set by the Senate. However internal organization needs to be left to the Praetors, etc to deal with. They are the "boots on the ground" and I believe we should defer internal organization to them.
13.. [AMA] VTI ROGAS
14.. [MMPH] VTI ROGAS
15.. [MIP] ANTIQVO
16.. [DIPI] ABSTINEO
17.. [LMS] ANTIQVO
18.. [MMA] VTI ROGAS: While I agree that Regio boundaries within a Provinces are the matter of the Provincial Staff normally, the present Consuls have asked the Senate for assistance in this particular situation and gives their reasoning for such a request. I believe that the Senate can and should respond to requests for assistance of this kind, if the assistance asked for can smooth the way for decision making in and for the provinces which are the life-blood of Nova Roma.
19.. [PMS] VTI ROGAS
20.. [MOG] ANTIQUO. The Senate shouldn't define internal organisation of a province - and one of those region names doesn't sound even remotely Roman
21.. [TOPA] VTI ROGAS
22.. [GPL] VTI ROGAS
23.. [GSA] ABSTINEO
24.. [JSM] ANTIQVO: Antiquo. I too believe that it is needless for the Senate to micromanage or usurp the powers delegated to provincial magistrates.
25.. [LSA] UTI ROGAS -- I see nothing wrong with the Senate ratifying a plan that has been agreed upon by the magistrates involved.
26.. [QSP] VTI ROGAS
27.. [ATMC] ANTIQVO: This is within the jurisdiction of the provincial magistrates.








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Salvete to civii novaroma_europe

there are 50 people listed as part of the novaroma_europe list and yet
there was only 1 post all of last year and less then 25 posts the year
brefore, if anyone from europe could tell me whats going on.?
I beening trying to find out if anyone in europe would want to come to
a trade fare in the summer and or if they would be willing to run one
for the temple Mercurius in europe . is there aother list for europe ?
as I know of novaromi going to europe this next few months and they
have asked me to find out how to talk with the europe lists of novaroma.
vale
Sacerdos Templi Mercurius
Primus Sacerdotus Provincia America Boreoccidentalis

House Priest Patrician Gens Cornelia
Marcus Cornelius Felix
magewuffa@...

Salvete,
I wish all Nova Romans good health and happiness in 2007!

And sorry for being quiet this month. I've broken my right elbow (and I'm right handed) so typing lefty or just sitting by the computer with a cast from my fingertips to my shoulder is uncomfortable. I'll be back in fighting force eventually :-)
Valete,
Diana

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CN. CORNELIVS LENTVLVS PROPR. & ROGAT. CAND. & SACERDOS PANN. QVIRITIBVS SALVTEM:




I would like to wish you, Quirites, a prosperous and happy new year with this Latin prayer and sacrifice - conducted on the 1st of Jan. 2760 AUC by me as Provincial Sacerdos and Propraetor of Pannonia, for my province and for our Republic and for you, the People of Nova Roma.



This sacrifice was conducted before my home-altar:

----------------------------------------------------
SACRIFICIVM KALENDARVM IANVARIARVM ANNI MMDCCLX AVC

- INVOCATIO of all the gods:

Iane,
Iuppiter, Iuno, Minerva,
Quirine, Venus, Vesta, Mercuri, Fortuna!
Penates, Lares,
di Novensiles, dique Indigetes,
omnes divi quocumque nomine,
quorum est potestas nostrum hostiumque,
dique Manes!

- GRATVLATIO to all the gods:

Vos quaeso precorque,
uti vos thure et vino et sue dato praeteriti proxime anni Kalendis Ianuariis
bonis precibus bene precatus sum,
quibusque uti votis meriti satisfecistis:
earundem rerum ergo propterque omnia in praeterito proxime anno alia
mihi, domo, familiae data beneficia
macte his thuris granis sacrificandis estote fitote volentes propitii!

# After these words incense was sacrificied. #

- PRECATIO of all the gods:

Quarum rerum ergo, quodque melius siet
renascenti Populo Romano Quiritibus,
mihi, domo, familiae
in hodie incepto novo anno:
vobis sacrum fiat:

Vos precor, veneror, veniam peto feroque,
uti Res Nostra, Res Romae reficiundae,
regignundi ac renascentis Populi Romani Quiritium,
Reique Publicae Populi Romani Quiritium renaturae
semper crescat, convalescat, continenter extendatur, augeatur;
fiantque multo plures Novi Romani Quirites;
motusque et consociatio ad Rem Romanam reficiundam instituatur;
utique Res Publica - ut dicta - Populi Novi Romani Quiritium semper floreat;
utique Provincia Pannonia - ut dicta -, cuius propraetor sum, crescat,
multosque cives habeat;
utique Populo Novo Romano Quiritibus,
Reique Publicae Populi Novi Romani Quiritium,
mihi, domo, familiae
omnes in hodie incepto novo anno eventus bonos faustosque esse siritis;
utique sitis volentes propitii Populo Novo Romano Quiritibus,
Reique Publicae Populi Novi Romani Quiritium,
Provinciaeque Pannoniae Populi Novi Romani Quiritium,
novis magistratibus, consulibus, praetoribus Populi Novi Romani Quiritium,
tribunis Plebei Novae Romanae,
Senatui Novo Romano,
rogatoribus Populi Novi Romani Quiritium,
mihi, domo, familiae!

- INVOCATIO & PRECATIO of the single gods:

Iuppiter Optime Maxime,
earundem rerum ergo te precor quaesoque,
uti sies volens propitius Populo Novo Romano Quiritibus,
Reique Publicae Populi Novi Romani Quiritium,
Provinciaeque Pannoniae Populi Novi Romani Quiritium,
novis magistratibus, consulibus, praetoribus Populi Novi Romani Quiritium,
tribunis Plebei Novae Romanae,
Senatui Novo Romano,
rogatoribus Populi Novi Romani Quiritium,
mihi, domo, familiae!

Quirine, Dea Roma, Venus Genetrix, Mars,
Penates, Lares, Manes maiorum nostrum,
omnes di quocumque nomine, qui Romam favetis favebatis,
earundem rerum ergo vos precor quaesoque,
uti fiant multo plures Novi Romani Quirites;
utique ex societate Novae Romae verus motus et consociatio fieri possit,
ex qua Populus Romanus Quiritium
Resque Publica Populi Romani Quiritium renascatur;
utique Novae Romae Societas Pannonia in Hungaria magni momenti fiat!

Deae Iuno et Vesta,
earundem rerum ergo vos precor quaesoque,
uti domos familiasque Populi Novi Romani Quiritium,
domum familiamque meam protegatis, curetis, custodiatis;
utique domos familiasque Populi Novi Romani Quiritium,
domum familiamque meam ab omnibus malis conservetis!

- SACRIFICIUM COMMVNE

Sicut verba nuncupavi, quae ita faxitis, uti ego me sentio dicere:
harum rerum ergo macte
hoc vino libando,
hoc sue immolando,
his thuris granis sacrificandis
estote fitote in hodie incepto novo anno volentes propitii
renascenti Populo Romano Quiritibus,
mihi, domo, familiae!

# After these words a glass of wine,
a piece of swine-meat
and incense were sacrificied.#


ILICET!
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Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus,
R O G A T O R C A N D I D A T U S
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Propraetor Provinciae Pannoniae
Sacerdos Provinciae Pannoniae
Accensus Consulis C. Fabii Buteonis
Scriba Censoris Cn. Equitii Marini
Scriba Aedilis Curulis T. Iulii Sabini
Scriba Interpretis Linguae Latinae Tulliae Scholasticae
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Decurio I. Sodalitatis Latinitatis
Dominus Factionis Russatae
Latinista, Classicus Philologus

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SALVE !

--- In Nova-Roma@yahoogroups.com, "wuffa2001" <magewuffa@...> wrote:
> there are 50 people listed as part of the novaroma_europe list and
yet there was only 1 post all of last year and less then 25 posts
the year brefore, if anyone from europe could tell me whats going
on.?>>>

I tried to join but it seems that the owner is not active.

> I beening trying to find out if anyone in europe would want to
come to a trade fare in the summer and or if they would be willing
to run one for the temple Mercurius in europe . is there aother list
for europe ?>>>

I guess, we are all here, to ML and in provincial lists. Do you want
to join in the Dacia group ?

> as I know of novaromi going to europe this next few months and
they have asked me to find out how to talk with the europe lists of
novaroma.>>>

They can talk with each province propraetor anytime.

VALE BENE,
IVL SABINVS

Salve IVL SABINVS!

--- In Nova-Roma@yahoogroups.com, "Titus Iulius Sabinus"
<iulius_sabinus@...> wrote:

>
> SALVE !
>
> --- In Nova-Roma@yahoogroups.com, "wuffa2001" <magewuffa@> wrote:
> > there are 50 people listed as part of the novaroma_europe list and
> yet there was only 1 post all of last year and less then 25 posts
> the year brefore, if anyone from europe could tell me whats going
> on.?>>>
>
> I tried to join but it seems that the owner is not active.
>
> > I beening trying to find out if anyone in europe would want to
> come to a trade fare in the summer and or if they would be willing
> to run one for the temple Mercurius in europe . is there aother list
> for europe ?>>>
>
> I guess, we are all here, to ML and in provincial lists. Do you want
> to join in the Dacia group ?

M.C.felix replys: I would love to join the Dacia group ,as It looks
like the best run group in novaroma.
vale

>
> > as I know of novaromi going to europe this next few months and
> they have asked me to find out how to talk with the europe lists of
> novaroma.>>>
>
> They can talk with each province propraetor anytime.
>
> VALE BENE,
> IVL SABINVS
>

SALVE !

--- In Nova-Roma@yahoogroups.com, "wuffa2001" <magewuffa@...> wrote:
> M.C.felix replys: I would love to join the Dacia group ,as It looks
> like the best run group in novaroma.

Done.Thank you for your kind words.

VALE BENE,
IVL SABINVS
Caput Trium Daciarum

Quinti Caecili Metelli iusiurandum ad Senatum Populumque Romanum
Kalendis Ianuariis L. Arminio Ti. Galerio coss. dictum.

I, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Postumianus (Lester A. Jones), do
hereby solemnly swear to uphold the honor of Nova Roma, and to act
always in the best interests of the people and the Senate of Nova Roma.

As a magistrate of Nova Roma, I, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius
Postumianus (Lester A. Jones) swear to honor the Gods and Goddesses of
Rome in my public dealings, and to pursue the Roman Virtues in my public
and private life.

I, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Postumianus (Lester A. Jones). swear
to uphold and defend the Religio Romana as the State Religion of Nova
Roma and swear never to act in a way that would threaten its status as
the State Religion.

I, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Postumianus (Lester A. Jones), swear
to protect and defend the Constitution of Nova Roma.

I, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Postumianus (Lester A. Jones),
further swear to fulfill the obligations and responsibilities of the
office of Quaestor to the best of my abilities.

On my honor as a Citizen of Nova Roma, and in the presence of the Gods
and Goddesses of the Roman people and by their will and favor, do I
accept the position of Quaestor and all the rights, privileges,
obligations, and responsibilities attendant thereto.

Ego, Tita Artoria Marcella, hac re ipsa decus Novae Romae me defensuram,
et semper pro populo senatuque Novae Romae acturam esse sollemniter IVRO.

Ego, Tita Artoria Marcella, officio curulis aedilis Novae Romae accepto, deos
deasque Romae in omnibus meae vitae publicae temporibus culturam, et
virtutes Romanas publica privataque vita me persecuturam esse IVRO.

Ego, Tita Artoria Marcella, Religioni Romanae me fauturam et eam
defensuram, et numquam contra eius statum publicum me acturam esse, ne quid
detrimenti capiat IVRO.

Ego, Tita Artoria Marcella, officiis muneris curulis aedilis me quam optime
functuram esse praeterea IVRO.

Meo civis Novae Romae honore, coram deis deabusque populi Romani, et
voluntate favoreque eorum, ego munus curulis aedilis una cum iuribus,
privilegiis, muneribus et officiis comitantibus ACCIPIO.

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I, Tita Artoria Marcella, do solemnly swear to uphold the honor of Nova Roma and to act always in the best interests of the people and senate of Nova Roma.

As a Curule Aedile of Nova Roma, I, Tita Artoria Marcella, swear to honor the Gods and Goddesses of Rome in my public dealings and to pursue the Roman Virtues in my public and private life.

I, Tita Artoria Marcella, swear to uphold and defend the Religio Romana as the State Religion of Nova Roma and swear never to act in a way that would threaten its status as the State Religion.

I, Tita Artoria Marcella, swear to protect and defend the Constitution of Nova Roma.

I, Tita Artoria Marcella, further swear to fulfill the obligations and responsibilities of the office of Curule Aedile to the best of my abilities.

On my honor as a citizen of Nova Roma and in the presence of the Gods and
Goddesses of the Roman people, and by their will and favor, I accept the
position of Curule Aedile and all the rights, privileges, obligations and
responsibilities attendant hereto.

Valete bene,
T. Artoria Marcella
.







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P. Memmius Albucius omnibus

A few words from Gallia and its provincial government to wish every
novaroman citizen and every senator, magistrate, sacerdos and officers
a happy new year !!!

I hope that 2760 auc will help us carry on romanitas.

Optime valete omnes !


Publius Memmius Albucius

Q. Caecilius Metellus Quiritibus salutem.

As decreed by the Collegium Pontificum, the calendar for this month of
January shall be as follows:

Kal. Ian., Fastus
a.d. IV Non. Ian., Fastus
a.d. III Non. Ian., Comitialis
pr. Non. Ian., Comitialis
Non. Ian., Fastus
a.d. VIII Id. Ian. Fastus
a.d. VII Id. Ian., Comitialis
a.d. VI Id. Ian., Comitialis
a.d. V Id. Ian., Nefastus Publicus
a.d. IV Id. Ian., Endotercisus
a.d. III Id. Ian., Nefastus Publicus
pr. Id. Ian., Comitialis
Id. Ian., Nefastus Publicus
a.d. XIX Kal. Feb., Fastus Nundinalis
a.d. XVIII Kal. Feb., Nefastus Publicus
a.d. XVII Kal. Feb., Comitialis
a.d. XVI Kal. Feb., Comitialis
a.d. XV Kal. Feb., Comitialis
a.d. XIV Kal. Feb., Comitialis
a.d. XIII Kal. Feb., Comitialis
a.d. XII Kal. Feb., Comitialis
a.d. XI Kal. Feb., Fastus Nundinalis
a.d. X Kal. Feb., Comitialis
a.d. IX Kal. Feb., Comitialis
a.d. VIII Kal. Feb., Comitialis
a.d. VII Kal. Feb., Comitialis
a.d. VI Kal. Feb., Comitialis
a.d. V Kal. Feb., Comitialis
a.d. IV Kal. Feb., Comitialis
a.d. III Kal. Feb., Fastus Nundinalis
pr. Kal. Feb., Comitialis

(A day marked "Fastus Nundinalis" is one whose character is fastus due
to its falling on a nundina.)

Per the decretum which was issued in the middle of last year by the
Collegium Pontificum, the nundinal letter for this year is "F", by which
the first nundina of this year will be 06 Ian. (a.d. VIII Id. Ian.).

For more information on the character of the days, please reference
http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Responsum_Pontificum_de_Diebus_%28Nova_Roma%29
http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Roman_Calendar
or, as always, you can send a private message to me.

Optime Valete in Pace Deorum,

QVINTVS·CAECILIVS·L·F·SAB·METELLVS·POSTVMIANVS
PONTIFEX

P. Memmius Albucius Marco Cornelio Felici s.d.

--- In Nova-Roma@yahoogroups.com, "wuffa2001" <magewuffa@...> wrote:

> I would love to join the Dacia group, as It looks like the best run
group in novaroma.

"Lollum" ! ;-)

I do not know what is the "best" group in NR and how can a group may
be defined as "best"... But it is sure that Dacia's team is a very
efficient one.

The most complete way to proceed, imho, is to send a triple
communication concerning your event, dear Cornelie : first to the
novaromaeurope@yahoogroups.com, which is pretty active since mid-
december ; second, you could write to every European governors ;
third, do not forget giving information to the curule aediles (their
duty is to watch over our NR markets ; third, in order to be careful,
to send a message in this main list.

Vale and happy new year Cornelie,

P. Memmius Albucius
Propr. Galliae

Salvete, excellent Pontifex! (if the vocative is correct)

My deepest thanks, I wasn´t able to find the link.
Could you advance the calendar for february as well, just for planning?

Vale bene in pacem deorum,
L. Arminius Faustus CSL


2007/1/1, Q. Caecilius Metellus <postumianus@...>:

>
> Q. Caecilius Metellus Quiritibus salutem.
>
> As decreed by the Collegium Pontificum, the calendar for this month of
> January shall be as follows:
>
> Kal. Ian., Fastus
> a.d. IV Non. Ian., Fastus
> a.d. III Non. Ian., Comitialis
> pr. Non. Ian., Comitialis
> Non. Ian., Fastus
> a.d. VIII Id. Ian. Fastus
> a.d. VII Id. Ian., Comitialis
> a.d. VI Id. Ian., Comitialis
> a.d. V Id. Ian., Nefastus Publicus
> a.d. IV Id. Ian., Endotercisus
> a.d. III Id. Ian., Nefastus Publicus
> pr. Id. Ian., Comitialis
> Id. Ian., Nefastus Publicus
> a.d. XIX Kal. Feb., Fastus Nundinalis
> a.d. XVIII Kal. Feb., Nefastus Publicus
> a.d. XVII Kal. Feb., Comitialis
> a.d. XVI Kal. Feb., Comitialis
> a.d. XV Kal. Feb., Comitialis
> a.d. XIV Kal. Feb., Comitialis
> a.d. XIII Kal. Feb., Comitialis
> a.d. XII Kal. Feb., Comitialis
> a.d. XI Kal. Feb., Fastus Nundinalis
> a.d. X Kal. Feb., Comitialis
> a.d. IX Kal. Feb., Comitialis
> a.d. VIII Kal. Feb., Comitialis
> a.d. VII Kal. Feb., Comitialis
> a.d. VI Kal. Feb., Comitialis
> a.d. V Kal. Feb., Comitialis
> a.d. IV Kal. Feb., Comitialis
> a.d. III Kal. Feb., Fastus Nundinalis
> pr. Kal. Feb., Comitialis
>
> (A day marked "Fastus Nundinalis" is one whose character is fastus due
> to its falling on a nundina.)
>
> Per the decretum which was issued in the middle of last year by the
> Collegium Pontificum, the nundinal letter for this year is "F", by which
> the first nundina of this year will be 06 Ian. (a.d. VIII Id. Ian.).
>
> For more information on the character of the days, please reference
> http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Responsum_Pontificum_de_Diebus_%28Nova_Roma%29
> http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Roman_Calendar
> or, as always, you can send a private message to me.
>
> Optime Valete in Pace Deorum,
>
> QVINTVS·CAECILIVS·L·F·SAB·METELLVS·POSTVMIANVS
> PONTIFEX
>
>
>

--
Valete bene in pacem deorum,
L. Arminius Faustus

"Vigilando, agendo, bene consulendo, prospera omnia cedunt" - Salustius


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Arminius Faustus scripsit:

>Could you advance the calendar for february as well, just for planning?

For myself, I would like the calendar for March, for the same reason.

T. Artoria Marcella


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I, Marcus Octavius Gracchus (Matt Hucke), do hereby solemnly swear
to uphold the honour of Nova Roma, and to act always in the best
interests of the people and the Senate of Nova Roma.

As a magistrate of Nova Roma, I, Marcus Octavius Gracchus (Matt Hucke)
swear to honour the Gods and Goddesses of Rome in my public dealings,
and to pursue the Roman Virtues in my public and private life.

I, Marcus Octavius Gracchus (Matt Hucke). swear to uphold and
defend the Religio Romana as the State Religion of Nova Roma
and swear never to act in a way that would threaten its status as
the State Religion.

I, Marcus Octavius Gracchus (Matt Hucke), swear
to protect and defend the Constitution of Nova Roma.

I, Marcus Octavius Gracchus (Matt Hucke), further swear to fulfill
the obligations and responsibilities of the office of
Magister Aranearius to the best of my abilities.

On my honour as a Citizen of Nova Roma, and in the presence of the Gods
and Goddesses of the Roman people and by their will and favour, do I
accept the position of Magister Aranearius and all the rights, privileges,
obligations, and responsibilities attendant thereto.

--
Marcus Octavius Gracchus
octavius@... * http://www.graveyards.com

-"Apes don't read philosophy."
-"Yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it! Let me correct
you on a few things: Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of
Buddhism is not 'every man for himself'. And the London Underground is
not a political movement! Those are all mistakes. I looked them up."
-from "A Fish Called Wanda"

M. Hortensia Quiritibus spd;
Concordia actually has reigned without unecessary rites or
unnatural fear of the gods!

I for one determined to do something positive for Nova Roma. So
with the help of Pontifex Astur, Senatrix Emilia Curia Finnica,
Consul-Elect Faustus, C. Curius Saturninus and our great Latinist
Avitus - we were able to produce another podcast of Vox Romana in
time for Saturnalia.
If we argue less, do more, the gods will only be pleased!We
have a lot of great active citizens, let's honour their
contributions.
bene valete in pacem deorum
M. Hortensia Maior
producer Vox Romana podcast
http://www.insulaumbra.com/voxromana/


--- In Nova-Roma@yahoogroups.com, "Gregory Rose" <gregory.rose@...>
wrote:

>
> . I more fear
> offending the Di Immortales and triggering a new round of piacula

by

> failing to perform the required expiations than violating the law

by

> performing the caerimonia before the Pontifex Maximus has

officially

> announced adoption of the decretum.

M. Hortensia Quiritibus spd;
wishing a Bonum Annum to all the Quirites! to our 2 new
Consuls Faustus and Paulinus, the new magistrates, and with thanks for
the time & labour of our departing Consuls Strabo and Modianus and all
the hard-working magistrates who contribute to the res publica.

this day is also the Feria of Aesculapius, the healer & Vediovis, the
young Iuppiter. May the gods grant us further prosperity & joy!
bene valete in pacem deorum
M. Hortensia Maior

Also listen to Vox Romana:)
http://www.insulaumbra.com/voxromana/

Q. Caecilius Metellus Omnibus salutem.

For reference, the full calendar for any given year can be found in the
Decretum Pontificum de Calendario Perpetuo at
http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Decretum_Pontificum_de_Calendario_Perpetuo_%28Nova_Roma%29

The nundinal letter for this year is F, which changes the character of
any day with this character to Fastus excepting days naturally Nefastus
Publicus (which shall remain nefastus publicus). I plan to continue to
publish the calendar monthly and nundinally, for the reference of all,
the latter containing the feriae for the nundinum in question.

A listing of all the nundinae for this year can be found at
http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Market_Day_%28Nova_Roma%29, though I expect
that section to move sooner or later, at which point I'll note in public
where to find the same information.

Valete,

Q. Caecilius Metellus Postumianus

M. Hortensia T. Iulio Sabino;
Sabine, forgive me for not congratulating you on this wonderful
acheivement sooner (New Years festivities;-)

You & your cohors have done an incredible job on the Magna Mater
Project; the medallion is a terrific idea, the monies raised is
truly impressive. My thanks to all the cives you have contributed. I
have silently worked on 3 cohors for MM & You & your cohors'
devotion with your time & labour is a true tribute to the Protectrix
of Rome & a delight to the gods.

Last year was a great year for Nova Roma with the Coin Project, the
NR Wiki, Academia Thules,Domus Agricola etc in the Macellum selling
Roman items, Vox Romana, & the Magna Mater Project.
may this year be even greater; we certainly
have the benevolence of the Mother of the Gods
by your pious deeds
bene valete in pacem Matris Deorum
Maior

> SALVETE NOVI ROMANI!
>
> "Who is the Mother of the Gods? She is the source of the
> intellectual and creative Gods, who in their turn guide the

Visible

> Gods; she is both the Mother and the Spouse of Mighty Zeus; she

came

> into being next and together with the Great Creator; she is in
> control of every form of life and the course of all generations;

she

> easily brings to perfection all things that are made; without pain
> she brings to birth; She is the Motherless Maiden, enthroned at

the

> very side of Zeus, and in very truth is the Mother of All the
> Gods....."
> - Emperor Julian II 'the Blessed', from an Oration to Cybele
> composed at Pessinus MCXVI A.V.C.
>
> I. General consideration.
>
> Last year it was an important year for the Magna Mater Project. It
> was the year when the Official Magna Mater website it was

presented.

> It is available at the following internet address:
> http://www.magnamaterproject.org/en/home.php
> There are all the necessary dates about the Project, initiated in
> 2002 by Caeso Fabius Buteo Quintilianus and his Cohort and

developed

> with great results by the next Aediles and Aedilician Cohorts of
> Franciscus Apulus Caesar, Marcus Iulius Perusianus and Lucius

Iulius

> Sulla.
> Thank you, Aediles, for your excellent job and dedication to the
> Project!
>
> As Project Coordinator for this year my first goal it was to
> establish a line for the Project development. For that, first, I
> created the necessaries structures: my Cohort and Magna Mater
> Collegium with specific duties.
> The members are listed in the following web pages:
> http://www.crystalwebvision.com/aedil/aediles.htm
> http://www.crystalwebvision.com/aedil/magnamater.htm
>
> At the beginning of the year I decided to start a campaign for the
> Magna Mater website promotion, inside our organization first and
> then outside of Nova Roma.
> This campaign is in correlation with the fundraising campaign, a
> continuous objective for me, my Cohort and MMP Collegium.
>
> II. Magna Mater Project promotion.
>
> The promotion of the Magna Mater Project and official website it

was

> for me the next logically step after the website it was presented

on

> line.
> With the help of the dedicated members of both Aedilician Cohorts

a

> draft page for promotion it was realized.
> http://www.dacia-novaroma.org/draft.htm
> My special thanks to the following citizens involved in this job:
> Aulla Tullia Scholastica - text editor.
> Tita Artoria Marcella - text editor.
> Iulia Caesar Cytheris Aege - text editor.
> Gnaeus Equitius Marinus - text editor.
> Gnaeus Iulius Caesar - web responsibilities
> Oppius Fabius Montanus - web responsibilities.
>
> I started the promotion campaign in a lot of our organization
> structures, from the provincials' one to the central

administration

> and directly to the Nova Roma members. Is difficult to keep an
> evidence of those who were receptive and help us with the

promotion.

> But I want to present some of them:
> - NR website - Valerius Callidus and Equitius Marinus.
> - Academia Thule - Caius Saturninus.
> - Archaeology Blog - Apollonius Scipio.
> - Gallia - Apollonius Scipio.
> - Canada Occidentalis - Suetonius Paulinus and Vipsanius Agrippa.
> - Italia - Franciscus Caesar.
> - Dacia – Iulius Sabinus.
> - Gens Iulia - Iulia Caesaris.
> - Gens Minucia - Minucia Marcella.
> - Pannonia ML - Cornelius Lentulus.
> - Mexic ML - Iulius Severus.
> - Germania - Flavius Conservatus.
> - Egressus - Gn. Iulius Caesar.
> - Go Roman Project - Gn. Iulius Caesar.
> - Mediatlantica - Gn. Equitius Marinus.
> - Canada Orientalis - Pompeia Minucia Strabo.
>
> With the dedication of M. Lucretius Agricola, our project is now
> present on the Nova Roma Wiki pages:
> http://www.novaroma.org/wiki/Magna_Mater_project
>
> III. Magna Mater Fundraising campaign.
>
> How I said the Project promotion is in correlation with the
> fundraising campaign. A new page was created:
> http://www.dacia-novaroma.org/draft2.htm
> My thanks to G. Aurelia falco Silvana for the english correction

of

> the text.
>
> The balance at the end of the year 2758 a.U.c, reported by the

hon.

> Iulius Sulla's Quaestor, Lucius Rutilius Minervalis, it was at
> 2759.25 USD and 611.89 Euro.
> At this year end the Project fund balance is at 3656.77 USD and 11
> Euro, reported by the hon. Quaestor Marcus Iulius Perusianus.
>
> We, the Magnae Matris Collegium, the Aedilician Cohorts and the
> Aediles, want to thank you for your donations. It is a testament

to

> your dedication to the ongoing development of the Magna Mater
> Project.
>
> This year MMP investors are:
> - G. Iulius Verus.
> - A. Tullius Marcellus Cato.
> - T. Galerius Paulinus.
> - A. Minucia Marcella.
> - S. Ullerius Venator.
> - M. Iunius Iulianus.
> - Edward LeBlanc.
> - Ti. Iulia Pulchra.
> - L. Cassia Silvana.
> - Q. Suetonius Paulinus.
>
> All the MMP investors are:
> - A. Minucia Marcella = 19.12 USD.
> - A. Tullius Marcellus Cato = 96.95 USD.
> - C. Curius Saturninus = 15 Euro.
> - C. Iulius Scaurus = 52.5 USD.
> - C. Iulius Verus = 2225.6 USD.
> - C.Vipsanius Agrippa = 20.64 Euro.
> - Compagnia delle Armi e delle Arti - Bologna = 40 Euro.
> - Diana Octavia Aventina = 15 Euro.
> - Edward LeBlanc = 18.92 USD.
> - Emilia Curia Finnica = 15 Euro.
> - Franciscus Apulus Caesar = 18 Euro.
> - Gallus Minicius-Tiberius Iovinus = 11 Euro.
> - Iulia Caesaris = 85 USD.
> - K. Fabius Buteo Quintilianus = 20 Euro.
> - L. Cassia Silvana = 20 USD.
> - M. Darius Firmitus = 19.12 USD.
> - M. Iunius Iulianus = 19.12 USD.
> - M. Iulius Perusianus = 9.75 USD.
> - Nova Roma Inc = 1663 USD.
> - Pompeia Minucia Strabo = 34.76 Euro.
> - Rotaract Club Pisa = 200 Euro.
> - Sextius Appolonius Scipio = 10 USD.
> - Sextius Pontius Pilatus Barbatus = 19.12 USD.
> - Stephanus Ullerius Venator = 48.25 USD.
> - Ti. Galerius Paulinus = 138.24 USD.
> - Ti. Iulia Pulchra = 38 USD.
> - T. Artoria Marcella = 20 USD.
> - T. Iulius Sabinus = 61.6 Euro.
> - Q. Fabius Allectus = 11 Euro.
> - Q. Suetonius Paulinus = 55.10 USD.
>
> Franciscus Apulus Caesar will upload in the first days of January
> (we have one more day for donations!!!) the Magna Mater website
> investors section, with the name and the donations of this

honorable

> citizens.
> http://www.magnamaterproject.org/en/project/investors.htm
> To support the Project, please visit this page:
> http://www.magnamaterproject.org/en/project/support.htm
>
> III. Magna Mater promotionals.
>
> The first Magna Mater Project promotional objects were produced: t-
> shirts and business cards.
> Destinations:
> - 5 t-shirts and 50 business cards - to Nova Roma Conventus from
> Hadrian Wall.
> - 50 business cards - to Provincia Italia.
> The producer is Caius Curius Saturninus, based by his great
> experience (see the calendar):
> http://www.insulaumbra.com/calendar/
> With this occasion I want to thank to Curius Saturninus for his
> dedication. A part from his calendars profit is redirected to the
> Magna Mater Project.
>
> IV. Magna Mater Project - Research section.
>
> 1. Magna Mater - Latin inscriptions around the world.
> The researchers' team was composed of M. Moravius Horatianus
> Piscinus, T. Artoria Marcella and M. Sempronia Justina. They have
> gone more than 60.000 inscriptions covering all the historical

roman

> provinces. All the dates were centralized inside the Cohort group,
> and I hope, that we will create the necessaries premises to

present

> a book with all inscriptions.
>
> 2. Magna Mater – Medallion project.
> The researchers' team was composed of M. Lucretius Agricola and L.
> Galeria Mira Pictrix. The design was finished and in the next year
> the MMP Collegium will choose the medallion legends and it will be
> produced.
> http://www.crystalwebvision.com/aedil/medallion.htm
>
> V. Frequently Asked Questions.
>
> For the new citizens I want to add to this bulletin the Iulius
> Perusianus FAQ, presented by Consul Pompeia Minucia Strabo:
>
> "We publish this list of questions and answers periodically for

the

> benefit of those not familiar with the project or its goals. We
> hope this is helpful to those new to Nova Roma.
> My thanks to F. Apulus Caesar Consul and Marcus Iulius Perusianus,
> Praetor 2758 Curulis Aedilis 2757, for the information in this
> section.
>
> ???COULD SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME THE PURPOSE OF THE MAGNA MATER
> PROJECT???
>
> The ultimate goal is the restoration of the temple, but this is
> honestly very long term, especially when one takes into account

our

> current financial situation. But even having money, there are
> several other small, but necessary steps which are already under
> development to 'restore' the temple, in a wider significance of

the

> meaning. To restore it also means to 'valorize' the sanctuary,

its

> historical and archaeological aspects, and the significance of the
> cult of the Magna Mater. Put another way, 'enhancing' would be
> perhaps a better term for these first steps of the Project.
> Periodically, a bulletin such as this report is published to keep
> the citizenry apprised of project developments.
>
> ????HOW ARE DONATIONS FROM NOVA ROMA UTILIZED IN THE MAGNA

MATER

> PROJECT???
>
> Consider this list of things to do in the near future (as part of
> the MM project):
> i. official website
> ii. material to promote this project (leaflets publications,

DVD

> with topographical introduction to the location, archaeological
> remains and evidences, history of the Sanctuary of the Cult of
> Cybele in Rome
> iii. a six-month scholarship for a student of the University

of

> Rome
> iv. multimedia CD Rom (See section II of this bulletin to

review

> details.)
>
> ???WHAT IS THE RETURN ON THIS INVESTMENT? WHY IS THE MAGNA
> MATER PROJECT SO IMPORTANT???
>
> It is important because it permits NR to spread its name into

the

> academic world, and provides the mechanism by which we may be
> entitled to manage Roman monuments. It's an opportunity to make

our

> name known in the macro national, physical world, after having

done

> so much in the virtual, electronic world.
>
> WILL NOVA ROMA EVER BE ALLOWED TO HOLD RITUAL THERE TO MAGNA
> MATER???
>
> ...Marcus Iulius Perusianus answersÂ…
>
> A certain number of NR citizens were able to visit the proximity

of

> the temple this past April, courtesy of a special pass by the
> Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma (the entire south-west side of
> the Palatine, the Germalus, has been closed for the past 5-7
> years). We were accompanied by a guardian for almost the entire
> visit, and at our tour of the house of Augustus, I guess a very
> simple rite could have been held. I believe that a longer than 5
> minute ceremony, with an attendance of more than 10-15 people,

would

> hardly be tolerated. I am not talking about 'religious'
> intolerance; it is just a question of security. Soprintendenza is
> working in the Germalus areas, and it is not easy to attain
> permission to enter. Honestly, I think to have a ritual there is
> currently quite impossible. Mind you, I am only speaking of what

I

> foresee during my Aedileship.
>
> ???WHAT HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE DO THE TREES CURRENTLY GROWING ON
> TOP OF THE MM SANCTUARY HOLD? WHY ARE THEY MORE HISTORICALLY
> IMPORTANT THAN THE RESTORATION OF ONE OF THE MORE IMPORTANT TEMPLE
> SITES OF ROME???
>
> Â…Marcus Iulius Perusianus answersÂ…
>
> I have asked this of the manager of the Palatine ruins.

Currently,

> it is deemed a useless effort to cut these environmentally and
> historically protected trees, as the only part of the structure
> remaining is the basement of the temple (not considering the short
> remains of a couple of columns). We won't have a better view of

the

> bricks with the presence of these trees, which have been there for
> some centuries. The general guidelines of the Soprintendenza
> Archeologica di Roma are to maintain the monuments as they are,
> unless there is original material of the structure to position in
> their respective places. And, even when these materials are

found,

> it takes a lot of time to study exactly where they fit. It is a
> matter of academic official opinion that not a single

reconstruction

> effort can be made without appropriate archaeological evidence to
> support such action."
>
> --------------------------
> I want to present my special thanks to all the investors for their
> wonderful support, in the name of the Curules Aediles, both

Cohorts

> and Magna Mater Collegium.
> I want to thank to MMP Collegium and to my Aedilician Cohort for
> their excellent job.
> I want to thank to the excellent Quaestor M Iulius Perusianus for
> his job and friendship.
>
> Romani from Magna Mater Collegium and Cohors Sabina Pia Fidelis :
> To work together it was a great honor for me !
>
>
> VALETE,
> IVL SABINVS
> MMP 2759 a.U.c Custodiant
> Curule Aedile
>

Scaurus Maiori SPD.

> Concordia actually has reigned without unecessary rites or
> unnatural fear of the gods!

Concordia reigned because you did not post. May the Gods give us such a year.

Vale.

Scaurus

C. Aurelia Falco Silvana T. Lindsay omnibusque civibus SPD.

--- In Nova-Roma@yahoogroups.com, dicconf <dicconf@...> wrote:
>
>
> Dick had a stroke, apparently one of a series that had passed unnoticed
> because the symptoms were atypical until the one last night.
> The doctors at Prince George's Hospital operated to remove the clot,
> but the complications that followed were untreatable.
>
> Richard Harris Eney died this afternoon, December 22, 2006.
> He was 69 years old.
>
> Plans have not been made yet. I do not intend to do the standard
> funeral scene. There may be a memorial service at some time.
> In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the charity of your
> choice.
>
> =Tamar Lindsay

My thoughts are with you and those close to you. My New Year's
Day rituals took me down to a stand of old-growth trees that
overlook our harbour. Silvanus is one of the deities of domus
Aurelia Falco, so this is a frequent stopping-place. In the
violent windstorms of November and December, and in spite of
being completely exposed to the winds, the grove lost just
one tree to the December hurricane-force winds. Like a caring
family, the remaining trees still stand around it.

When my father died in July 2005 (2758 auc) I also needed a
way to do something meaningful in a context that was often
less than comfortable to me. I obtained permission to do a
graveside reading, since everything up to that point was
dictated by church protocols. Afterwards, I received many
positive comments that indicated these readings can transcend
dogma and touch our common humanity.

I chose a selection of readings from the MEDITATIONS of
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, and offer them here again.
(I had posted them in 2005). If they are of help to you or
to anyone else dealing with bereavement (as we all of us
grow older), it will be an honor.

Vale Tamar, et valete omnes, in pace Deorum.

C. Aurelia Falco Silvana

Thurs 7 July
2005

Page references are to
MEDITATIONS by Marcus Aurelius [George Long trans.],
Book-of-the-Month Club, NY 1996.
[The George Long translation dates from the mid-nineteenth
century.]

Square brackets indicate words in the original text that
were omitted for a more comfortable fit with the Christian
context, out of respect for those present at the funeral
of my father on 2 July 2005.

==============================================================



I. from Chapter VIII, xxvii:
There are three relations between thee and other things:
the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to
the divine cause from which all things come to all; and
the third to those who live with thee. (page 66)

II. from Chapter VII, ix:
All things are implicated with one another, and the bond
is holy; and there is hardly anything unconnected with any
other thing. For things have been co-ordinated, and they
combine to form the universe. For there is one universe
made up of all things, and one God who pervades all things,
and one substance, and one law, one common reason in all
intelligent animals, and one truth; if indeed there is also
one perfection for all animals which are of the same stock
and particpate in the same reason. (page 52)

III. from Chapter XII, xxvi:
When thou art troubled about anything, thou hast forgotten
this, that all things happen according to the universal
nature; and forgotten this, that a man's wrongful act is
nothing to thee; and further thou hast forgotten this,
that everything which happens, always happened so and will
happen so, and now happens so everywhere; forgotten this
too, how close is the kinship between a man and the whole
human race, for it is a community, not of a little blood
or seed, but of intelligence. And thou hast forgotten this
too, that every man's intelligence [is a god, and] is an
efflux of the deity; and forgotten this, that nothing is a
man's own, but that his child and his body and his very
soul come from the deity; forgotten this, that everything
is opinion; and lastly thou hast forgotten that every man
lives the present time only, and loses only this. (page 107)

IV. from Chapter VIII, lviii:
He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation, or
a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no
sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt
acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different
kind of living being, and thou wilt not cease to live. (page 72)

V. from Chapter VII, xxiii:
The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if
it were wax, now moulds a horse, and when it has broken this
up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, and then
for something else; and each of these things subsists for a
very short time. But it is no hardship for the vessel to be
broken up, just as there was none in its being fastened
together. (page 54)

VI. from Chapter XI, iii:
What a soul that is which is ready, if at any moment it must
be separated from the body, and ready either to be extinguished
or dispersed or continue to exist; but so that this readiness
comes from a man's own judgement, not from mere obstinacy,
[as with the Christians,] but considerately and with dignity
and in a way to persuade another, without tragic show. (page 93)

On the first day of January in the 2760th year of the City, the Nova Roma
citizens Lucius Arminius Faustus, Tiberius Galerius Paulinus have entered office
as consuls.
For Romans at the start of the year a careful ritual was observed to ensure
success in public and private affairs. The first words you spoke on rising in
the morning, the first actions performed within the house must be happy and
uncomplaining. Laurel and saffron, around the door or burning on the little
household altar, would bring some luck. But this was no holiday. As the year
started, so would it continue. One must be up and doing his or her's work. By all
means one could visit and receive friends; exchange good wishes and give
little gifts of dates, figs and honey to sweeten the coming year; but then it was
off to work. Wherever Roman citizens lived throughout the the lands, everything
done and said would, or might, set the pattern for the year: especially at
Rome itself.
If you could be in the City at this time you would see the temples, normally
kept shut, were open to worship, and fire burned on the altars that stood
before them. Unce again the solemn and annual procession of Roman notables was
once more to make its way up to the Temple of Jupiter - Best and Greatest to
seek a blessing on the Roman community.
Early in the day the crowds would have gathered in the Forum Romanum. The
senator wearing his heavy, newly-fulled and pure-white woollen toga over the
broad-stripe of his tunic, with the patrician shod with scarlet shoes,
cross-gartered. All Senators would be present on such a special occasion—all those not
hindered by illness or absent on the public service in or outside country. Then
there were representatives of the middle class of the 'knights' the merchants,
bankers and contractors, men of solid financial status, second estate in a
community where rank and privilege were not imagined to be incompatible with the
liberty of the individual. These men you could distinguish by the narrow
purple stripe beneath the toga. Next, the populus Romanus at large: artisans,
shopkeepers, labourers, servants, farm folk in for the day from the nearby country
perhaps to vote; and almost as numerous and not outwardly distinguishable,
the immigrants or indigenous, climbing to citizenship.

The procession would form up as the two Consuls, dressed in the purple and
embroidered togas of consuls, appeared in public. Ahead would move the knights,
alongside were the senators and preceding the consular pair, their lictors,
each with the traditional bundle of rods strapped round an axe and supported in
left hand and on left shoulder. Behind the Consuls would be carried the
ceremonial Etruscan folding stools of wood and metal inlaid with carved ivory,
sellae curules; the simple thrones of Roman magistrates.
The participants of the age-old sacrifice would be there: priests, herald,
flute player, victimarius, his assistant and young boy for good fortune who must
have both his parents living. Then there would be the victims: white oxen
from the Faliscan heights or the watery plain of Clitunno, their horns dusted
with gilt. At the foot of the slope the procession would turn to the left, and
move north-westwards towards the Capitol, past the high podium of the Temple
of Saturn, and up the steep slope of the paved, slightly curving Sacred Way
that led along the south face of the Capitoline Hill. Once through the gate and
into the sanctified area, they would stand before columns fronting the Temple
of Iuppiter, Iuno and Minerva. Within the doorway of the central shrine, that
of Iuppiter, the Consuls woud take their places for the first time upon their
sellae curules, facing outwards to the altar, the assembly gathered and gaze
out over the City.

It was now necessary to take the auspices and make sure that the God would
accept the coming sacrifice. The cage containing the sacred chickens, was
superintended by a special official, the pullarius. If the birds scuttled away
instead of greedily pecking at the cakes of grain thrown to them, it would be a
bad sign, and the ceremony cancelled. If all was well the pullarius would report
that the birds had fed. The altar fire would crackle with saffron. In the
presence of the togate consuls, and with the Senate and People of Rome, keeping
holy silence, the purple-veiled priest would offer prayers for the state, the
formulae carefully repeated from a written example and checked for correctness
by a listener appointed for this very purpose. Any mispronunciation or slur
invalidated the proceedings; the priest would have to start over. To drown
unlucky or polluted noises a piper played. Then the head of the ox was sprinkled
with meal by the priest, and turned sideways; the animal had its throat slit
and the victim was disembowelled and the entrails laid upon the altar. Only if
the ritual repeated undeviatingly that of past years could another year of
success be expected to take its place in the cycle. Afterwards would come a
second offering, this time made by the twelve Brethren of the Fields, an ancient
and exclusive body, of which the senior member was president, and whose members
constituted a kind of order of nobility. Its origin came when Rome was a small
town dependent on her farmers, whose crops yield success would be guaranteed
by piety.

The ceremony now concluded, the procession re-formed and descended the slope
it had climbed. The consuls, those magistrates present and senators made their
way to the Senate House in the north-east corner of the Forum for the first
meeting of the year. From there, the first disecions of the republic would be
discussed and issued.

As it was then, shall it be today...Happy New Year, Citizens of Nova Roma!

Q. Fabius Maximus


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Salve, Brett. If you care to give me a middle name, as well, I'll
see what sort of Roman name I can blanagram for you. If you care to
post your request at the UNRV forum here:

http://tinyurl.com/sgz42

I'll also give you your "family history" as a Roman citizen. :) You
can see examples of other names I've done there.

-- Nephele

--- In Nova-Roma@yahoogroups.com, Brett Murphy <aussieman1968@...>
wrote:

>
> What would Brett Murphy translate as?

-Maior Iulio salutem dicit;
May I suggest you have a happy start to your New Year &
congratulate someone who actually did something for the res publica?
Kindly drop this juvenile feud with me as I am doing & lets thank
Sabinus who has honoured Magna Mater, Agricola for designing our
coin that depicts Iuppiter, Avitus who teaches Latin to all of us,
Saturninus who designed & sells a calendar that shows all the Fasti.
Astur, Faustus for taking time from their work to make sound
recordings for our podcast.
I salute them all & so should you.
bene vale
M. Hortensia Maior


Concordia reigned because you did not post. May the Gods
give us such a year.

>
> Vale.
>
> Scaurus
>

C. Aurelia Falco Silvana omnibus civibus bonum annum novum
exoptat.

Hoping you all find yourselves with family and friends,
and that the door of the New Year opens for you onto
a bright 12 months of personal growth.

The deities of Domus Aurelia Falco are Aurora, Horus,
Arachne, Nerthus and Silvanus (all classed as minor deities).
The day began with an early-morning walk to the waterfront
in honor of Aurora. From the fourth deck of an observation
tower, through the mist and pouring rain, the outlines of
the hills were just visible at the point where the
(not visible!) sun would have risen. I performed my usual
morning meditation at this point.

In honor of Horus, I took part in our annual bird count
on December 30, then today began learning more about the
marine birds by spending time observing after coming back
to earth (smile)from the tower.

In honor of Silvanus, I then visited a grove of old-growth
trees (fir, some maple a Pacific yew or two) that stands
on a bluff above the harbour. We have had terrific storms
in November and December, and during the December hurricane-
force winds one (only one!) of the trees came down. I made
offerings of wine for the fallen tree, and then for the
still-standing trees, offering thanks for their long lives.
I then made offerings of salt, again for the fallen and for
the standing, with wishes for a long future. (I am part of
an ad-hoc group of citizens has been struggling to preserve
this grove from development for more than a year now. We
have managed to cast into limbo plans for sale of the
property, but the struggle is not yet decided.)

Arachne will be honored this evening, with work in bobbin
lace and other threadcraft.

In honor of Nerthus, I took part in our annual Peace Walk.
And yes, we webfooted denizens of the We(s)t Coast walked
the walk in the pouring rain. At the end of the walk we
gathered in a community centre for songs and shared thoughts.
This was followed by a walk to our local Sikh Temple where
a vegetarian lunch was offered to all participants.

For the Peace Walk last year (2758 auc), I prepared a few
readings from Marcus Aurelius on the general theme of Peace.
It was my first participation, and very positively received.
This year's walk had the theme of "Let Peace begin with me."
And having had a *whole year* (grin) to prepare for this day,
I think I did a slightly better job of it.

I mosaiced a selection of readings, many of them quite short,
so that they can be read pretty much as a single discourse.
As soon as I finish this, I will be sending e-copies off to
three people who have requested them. At least one (and I
suspect all) had never heard of M. Aurelius Antoninus, so
the day is already well rewarded.

The readings follow. Any feedback would be welcome,
especially if you find a way to use this material yourself.

Vale bene in Pace Deorum.
C. Aurelia Falco Silvana


DE PACE / on peace 1 January 2007

MEDITATIONS by Marcus Aurelius [George Long trans.],
Book-of-the-Month Club, NY 1996.
[NB: The George Long translation dates from the mid-19th century]

Some adaptation by Silvana. Basically, because this was to
be read aloud to people unfamiliar with the work, I opted to
change the "thee, thou, thyself, etc" words to modern English.
In a few places I altered the turn of phrase to make it easier
to understand on first hearing. Yahoo does not reproduce the
italics I used to flag these changes. If anyone wants a copy
that shows the italicised bits, please e-mail me. You will need
to be able to receive an attachment in Word 2000.

If you would like the original version (which I prefer for
my personal use) let me know.



FOR PEACE WALK 2007:
LET PEACE BEGIN WITH ME


Among the animals which do not have the power of reason
one life is distributed; but among reasonable animals one
intelligent soul is distributed; just as there is one earth
of all things which are of an earthy nature, and we see by
one light, and breathe one air, all of us that have the
faculty of vision and all that have life.
(Chapter IX, viii: page 74)

We are all working together to one end, some with knowledge
and design, and others without knowing what they do; as
people also when they are asleep, of whom it is . . .
said that they are labourers and co-operators in the things
which take place in the universe. But people co-operate in
different ways: and even those co-operate abundantly, who
find fault with what happens and those who try to oppose it
and to hinder it; for the universe needs even of such people
as these. It remains then for you to understand among what
kind of workers you place yourself; for he who rules all
things will receive you among some part of the co-operators
and of those whose labours combine for one end . . . .
(Chapter VI, xlii: page 48)


First, do nothing inconsiderately, nor without a purpose.
Second, make your acts refer to nothing else than to a
social end.
(Chapter XII, xx: page 106)

Never value anything as profitable to yourself which shall
compel you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect,
to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite,
to desire anything which needs walls and curtains; for he who
has preferred to everything else his own intelligence and
spirit and the worship of its excellence, acts no tragic part,
does not groan, will not need either solitude or much company;
and, what is chief of all, . . . he will take care of this
only all through life, that his thoughts do not turn away
from anything which belongs to an intelligent animal and a
member of a civil community.
(Chapter III, vii: pages 16 – 17)

When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed
in a manner, quickly return to yourself and do not continue
out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts; for you will
have more mastery over the harmony by continually returning
to it.
(Chapter VI, xi: page 41)


If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true,
do not say it.
(Chapter XII, xvii: page 105)

. . . . Remember. . . and begin at last to be courageous
while you live. But you must equally avoid flattering men
and being vexed at them, for both are unsocial and lead to
harm. And let this truth be present to you in the excitement
of anger, that to be moved by passion is not manly, but that
mildness and gentleness, as they are more agreeable to human
nature, so also are they more manly; and he who possesses
these qualities possesses strength, nerves and courage, and
not the person who is subject to fits of passion and discontent. For
in the same degree in which one's mind is nearer to freedom
from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to
strength; and as the sense of pain is a characteristic of
weakness, so also is anger. For the person who yields to
pain and the one who yields to anger, both are wounded and
both submit.
(Chapter XI, xviii: page 99)

Try how the life of the good person suits you, the life of
the person who is satisfied with his own just acts and
benevolent disposition.
(Chapter IV, xxv: page 24)

All those things at which you wish to arrive by a circuitous
road you can have now, if you do not refuse them to yourself.
And this means, if you will take no notice of all the past,
and trust the future to providence, and direct the present
only conformably to piety and justice. Conformably to piety,
that you may be content with the lot which is assigned to you,
for nature designed it for you, and you for it. Conformably
to justice, that you may always speak the truth freely and
without disguise, and do the things which are agreeable law
and according to the worth of each. And do not let any
person's wickedness hinder you, nor opinion, nor voice, nor
yet the sensations of the poor flesh which has grown about
you; for the passive part will look to this. If then,
whatever the time may be when you shall be near to your
departure, neglecting everything else you shall respect
only your ruling faculty and the divinity within you, and
if then you shall be afraid, not because you must sometime
cease to live, but if you shall fear never to have begun
to live according to nature -- then you will be a person
worthy of the universe which has produced you, and you
will cease to be a stranger in your native land, and to
wonder at things which happen daily as if they were something
unexpected, and to be dependent on this or that.
(Chapter XII, i: page 102)


Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will
ever bubble up, if you will ever dig.
(Chapter VII, lxix: page 5)

Salve Q. Fabius Maximus

Amice

Thank you very much for writing this.
I always llike to read it at the beginning of each new year.

Vale

Tiberius Galerius Paulinus

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On the first day of January in the 2760th year of the City, the Nova Roma
citizens Lucius Arminius Faustus, Tiberius Galerius Paulinus have entered office
as consuls.
For Romans at the start of the year a careful ritual was observed to ensure
success in public and private affairs. The first words you spoke on rising in
the morning, the first actions performed within the house must be happy and
uncomplaining. Laurel and saffron, around the door or burning on the little
household altar, would bring some luck. But this was no holiday. As the year
started, so would it continue. One must be up and doing his or her's work. By all
means one could visit and receive friends; exchange good wishes and give
little gifts of dates, figs and honey to sweeten the coming year; but then it was
off to work. Wherever Roman citizens lived throughout the the lands, everything
done and said would, or might, set the pattern for the year: especially at
Rome itself.
If you could be in the City at this time you would see the temples, normally
kept shut, were open to worship, and fire burned on the altars that stood
before them. Unce again the solemn and annual procession of Roman notables was
once more to make its way up to the Temple of Jupiter - Best and Greatest to
seek a blessing on the Roman community.
Early in the day the crowds would have gathered in the Forum Romanum. The
senator wearing his heavy, newly-fulled and pure-white woollen toga over the
broad-stripe of his tunic, with the patrician shod with scarlet shoes,
cross-gartered. All Senators would be present on such a special occasion—all those not
hindered by illness or absent on the public service in or outside country. Then
there were representatives of the middle class of the 'knights' the merchants,
bankers and contractors, men of solid financial status, second estate in a
community where rank and privilege were not imagined to be incompatible with the
liberty of the individual. These men you could distinguish by the narrow
purple stripe beneath the toga. Next, the populus Romanus at large: artisans,
shopkeepers, labourers, servants, farm folk in for the day from the nearby country
perhaps to vote; and almost as numerous and not outwardly distinguishable,
the immigrants or indigenous, climbing to citizenship.

The procession would form up as the two Consuls, dressed in the purple and
embroidered togas of consuls, appeared in public. Ahead would move the knights,
alongside were the senators and preceding the consular pair, their lictors,
each with the traditional bundle of rods strapped round an axe and supported in
left hand and on left shoulder. Behind the Consuls would be carried the
ceremonial Etruscan folding stools of wood and metal inlaid with carved ivory,
sellae curules; the simple thrones of Roman magistrates.
The participants of the age-old sacrifice would be there: priests, herald,
flute player, victimarius, his assistant and young boy for good fortune who must
have both his parents living. Then there would be the victims: white oxen
from the Faliscan heights or the watery plain of Clitunno, their horns dusted
with gilt. At the foot of the slope the procession would turn to the left, and
move north-westwards towards the Capitol, past the high podium of the Temple
of Saturn, and up the steep slope of the paved, slightly curving Sacred Way
that led along the south face of the Capitoline Hill. Once through the gate and
into the sanctified area, they would stand before columns fronting the Temple
of Iuppiter, Iuno and Minerva. Within the doorway of the central shrine, that
of Iuppiter, the Consuls woud take their places for the first time upon their
sellae curules, facing outwards to the altar, the assembly gathered and gaze
out over the City.

It was now necessary to take the auspices and make sure that the God would
accept the coming sacrifice. The cage containing the sacred chickens, was
superintended by a special official, the pullarius. If the birds scuttled away
instead of greedily pecking at the cakes of grain thrown to them, it would be a
bad sign, and the ceremony cancelled. If all was well the pullarius would report
that the birds had fed. The altar fire would crackle with saffron. In the
presence of the togate consuls, and with the Senate and People of Rome, keeping
holy silence, the purple-veiled priest would offer prayers for the state, the
formulae carefully repeated from a written example and checked for correctness
by a listener appointed for this very purpose. Any mispronunciation or slur
invalidated the proceedings; the priest would have to start over. To drown
unlucky or polluted noises a piper played. Then the head of the ox was sprinkled
with meal by the priest, and turned sideways; the animal had its throat slit
and the victim was disembowelled and the entrails laid upon the altar. Only if
the ritual repeated undeviatingly that of past years could another year of
success be expected to take its place in the cycle. Afterwards would come a
second offering, this time made by the twelve Brethren of the Fields, an ancient
and exclusive body, of which the senior member was president, and whose members
constituted a kind of order of nobility. Its origin came when Rome was a small
town dependent on her farmers, whose crops yield success would be guaranteed
by piety.

The ceremony now concluded, the procession re-formed and descended the slope
it had climbed. The consuls, those magistrates present and senators made their
way to the Senate House in the north-east corner of the Forum for the first
meeting of the year. From there, the first disecions of the republic would be
discussed and issued.

As it was then, shall it be today...Happy New Year, Citizens of Nova Roma!

Q. Fabius Maximus

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D.Svetonivs Lvpvs C. Aurelia Falco Silvana S.P.D.

Salve Domina:

I was moved by your selections from M.A. Antoninus, my favorite and " Last of the Good Emperors"......

Its timeless message rings true down the centuries to this day....its beauty endures forever.

Vale et Valete
D. Svetonivs Lvpvs


C. Aurelia Falco Silvana T. Lindsay omnibusque civibus SPD.

--- In Nova-Roma@yahoogroups.com, dicconf wrote:
>
>
> Dick had a stroke, apparently one of a series that had passed unnoticed
> because the symptoms were atypical until the one last night.
> The doctors at Prince George's Hospital operated to remove the clot,
> but the complications that followed were untreatable.
>
> Richard Harris Eney died this afternoon, December 22, 2006.
> He was 69 years old.
>
> Plans have not been made yet. I do not intend to do the standard
> funeral scene. There may be a memorial service at some time.
> In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the charity of your
> choice.
>
> =Tamar Lindsay

My thoughts are with you and those close to you. My New Year's
Day rituals took me down to a stand of old-growth trees that
overlook our harbour. Silvanus is one of the deities of domus
Aurelia Falco, so this is a frequent stopping-place. In the
violent windstorms of November and December, and in spite of
being completely exposed to the winds, the grove lost just
one tree to the December hurricane-force winds. Like a caring
family, the remaining trees still stand around it.

When my father died in July 2005 (2758 auc) I also needed a
way to do something meaningful in a context that was often
less than comfortable to me. I obtained permission to do a
graveside reading, since everything up to that point was
dictated by church protocols. Afterwards, I received many
positive comments that indicated these readings can transcend
dogma and touch our common humanity.

I chose a selection of readings from the MEDITATIONS of
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, and offer them here again.
(I had posted them in 2005). If they are of help to you or
to anyone else dealing with bereavement (as we all of us
grow older), it will be an honor.

Vale Tamar, et valete omnes, in pace Deorum.

C. Aurelia Falco Silvana

Thurs 7 July
2005

Page references are to
MEDITATIONS by Marcus Aurelius [George Long trans.],
Book-of-the-Month Club, NY 1996.
[The George Long translation dates from the mid-nineteenth
century.]

Square brackets indicate words in the original text that
were omitted for a more comfortable fit with the Christian
context, out of respect for those present at the funeral
of my father on 2 July 2005.

==============================================================



I. from Chapter VIII, xxvii:
There are three relations between thee and other things:
the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to
the divine cause from which all things come to all; and
the third to those who live with thee. (page 66)

II. from Chapter VII, ix:
All things are implicated with one another, and the bond
is holy; and there is hardly anything unconnected with any
other thing. For things have been co-ordinated, and they
combine to form the universe. For there is one universe
made up of all things, and one God who pervades all things,
and one substance, and one law, one common reason in all
intelligent animals, and one truth; if indeed there is also
one perfection for all animals which are of the same stock
and particpate in the same reason. (page 52)

III. from Chapter XII, xxvi:
When thou art troubled about anything, thou hast forgotten
this, that all things happen according to the universal
nature; and forgotten this, that a man's wrongful act is
nothing to thee; and further thou hast forgotten this,
that everything which happens, always happened so and will
happen so, and now happens so everywhere; forgotten this
too, how close is the kinship between a man and the whole
human race, for it is a community, not of a little blood
or seed, but of intelligence. And thou hast forgotten this
too, that every man's intelligence [is a god, and] is an
efflux of the deity; and forgotten this, that nothing is a
man's own, but that his child and his body and his very
soul come from the deity; forgotten this, that everything
is opinion; and lastly thou hast forgotten that every man
lives the present time only, and loses only this. (page 107)

IV. from Chapter VIII, lviii:
He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation, or
a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no
sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt
acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different
kind of living being, and thou wilt not cease to live. (page 72)

V. from Chapter VII, xxiii:
The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if
it were wax, now moulds a horse, and when it has broken this
up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, and then
for something else; and each of these things subsists for a
very short time. But it is no hardship for the vessel to be
broken up, just as there was none in its being fastened
together. (page 54)

VI. from Chapter XI, iii:
What a soul that is which is ready, if at any moment it must
be separated from the body, and ready either to be extinguished
or dispersed or continue to exist; but so that this readiness
comes from a man's own judgement, not from mere obstinacy,
[as with the Christians,] but considerately and with dignity
and in a way to persuade another, without tragic show. (page 93)










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> Salve, Brett. If you care to give me a middle name, as well, I'll
> see what sort of Roman name I can blanagram for you. If you care to
> post your request at the UNRV forum here:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/sgz42
>
> I'll also give you your "family history" as a Roman citizen. :) You
> can see examples of other names I've done there.
>
> -- Nephele

Salve Nephele!

After having read through all of the posts on the UNRV forum on this
matter, I'm quite amused...and curious. When you have a free moment,
could you kindly see what hidden Roman name you can find in this:

ceeijjklmorsy [[Male]]

Until the next time,
[pending to be] D. Saturius Praeconinus
[[PS: My apologies if I got the greeting wrong; Latin is a fairly new
realm for me.]]

Gn. Equitius Marinus Quiritibus salutem plurimam dicit:

Ego, Gnaeus Equitius Marinus, hac re ipsa decus Novae Romae me
defensurum, et semper pro populo senatuque Novae Romae acturum esse
sollemniter IVRO.

Ego, Gnaeus Equitius Marinus, officio Quaestoris Novae Romae accepto, deos
deasque Romae in omnibus meae vitae publicae temporibus culturum, et
virtutes Romanas publica privataque vita me persecuturum esse IVRO.

Ego, Gnaeus Equitius Marinus, Religioni Romanae me fauturum et eam
defensurum, et numquam contra eius statum publicum me acturum esse, ne
quid detrimenti capiat IVRO.

Ego, Gnaeus Equitius Marinus officiis muneris Quaestoris me quam optime
functurum esse praeterea IVRO.

Meo civis Novae Romae honore, coram deis deabusque populi Romani, et
voluntate favoreque eorum, ego munus Quaestoris una cum iuribus,
privilegiis, muneribus et officiis comitantibus ACCIPIO.

Datum sub manum mea, Kal. Ian. MMDCCLX ab urbe condita
Lucio Arminio Faustis et Tiberio Galerio Paulinis Consulibus

=============================================================

I, Gnaeus Equitius Marinus (William C. Gawne) do hereby solemnly swear
to uphold the honor of Nova Roma, and to act always in the best
interests of the people and the Senate of Nova Roma.

As a magistrate of Nova Roma, I, Gnaeus Equitius Marinus (William C.
Gawne) swear to honor the Gods and Goddesses of Rome in my public
dealings, and to pursue the Roman Virtues in my public and private life.

I, Gnaeus Equitius Marinus (William C. Gawne) swear to uphold and defend
the Religio Romana as the State Religion of Nova Roma and swear never to
act in a way that would threaten its status as the State Religion.

I, Gnaeus Equitius Marinus (William C. Gawne) swear to protect and
defend the Constitution of Nova Roma.

I, Gnaeus Equitius Marinus (William C. Gawne) further swear to fulfill
the obligations and responsibilities of the office of Quaestor to the best
of my abilities.

On my honor as a Citizen of Nova Roma, and in the presence of the Gods
and Goddesses of the Roman people and by their will and favor, do I
accept the position of Quaestor and all the rights, privileges,
obligations, and responsibilities attendant thereto.

Given under my hand this first day of January, 2760 a.u.c. in the
Consulship of Lucius Arminius Faustus and Tiberius Galerius Paulinus.

Gn. Equitius Marinus
Censorius, Consular, Senator Novae Romae

Fl. Galerius Aurelianus fl Cer sal.

The Consuls and the Senate, by traditional historical practice, would
convene on the Kal of Ian. to confirm the calendar that had been recommended by the
Pontiffs. Also, there are certain feriae that are conceptivae (movable)
that must be determined during the first meeting of the Senate. While the CP
has approved the calendars for 2759 and 2760, it is the duty of the Consuls and
Senate to formalize the calendar.

Valete.


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M. Hortensia quiritibus spd;
for those who are new to the fun big topic of Roman
nomenclature; please go to our Main Page & click on 'choosing a
Roman Name' Cordus answers all your questions!
Just scroll down to 'usage' there you will find how to address
people, which names to use & what not to use. Don't call people by
their praenomina: eg 'Salve Marce, Marca' or 'Dominus, Domina.' One
is way too familiar, the other servile.
A. Apollonius Cordus wrote the article & its scholarship is
absolutely impeccable.

If you want to address a new person in the forum & don't know his or
her name: use 'optime vir', 'optime mulier' (vocative) which is
classical usage.

When starting a post use your praenomen + nomen & the person or
people addressed in the dative case followed by s.d [salutem dicit]
or s.p.d

It's really not that bad as all Masculine names ending in
ius- io Iulius - Iulio
us- o Brutus - Bruto
Feminines ending in a
a- ae Claudia - Claudiae

So Marca Hortensia Maior addresses Aulus Apollonius Cordus:

M. Hortensia A. Apollonio Cordo spd;

Cordus addresses Hortensia:

A. Apollonio M. Hortensiae spd;

some cognomens are irregular...like mine " Maior", "Cato" "Strabo"
they take an 'i'
so
M. Hortensia G. Equito Catoni spd;
G. Equitio Cato M. Hortensiae Maiori spd;
M. Hortensia P. Minuciae Straboni spd;

but as I typed above you can omit the difficult cognomen & call the
person by his/her praenomen + nomen.

For plurals: omnes in the dative are "omnibus", cives are 'civibus',
quirites are 'quiritibus'

& save this or copy the Nomenclature article. It's just what I did
when I joined over 3 happy years ago & was clueless about
addressing people but wanted to learn.
curate ut valeatis
M. Hortensia Maior




In Nova-Roma@yahoogroups.com, "Jibril ibn Najdah ibn Zayd al-`Attar"
<giudo.brunelleschi@...> wrote:

>
> > Salve, Brett. If you care to give me a middle name, as well,

I'll

> > see what sort of Roman name I can blanagram for you. If you

care to

> > post your request at the UNRV forum here:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/sgz42
> >
> > I'll also give you your "family history" as a Roman

citizen. :) You

> > can see examples of other names I've done there.
> >
> > -- Nephele
>
>
> Salve Nephele!
>
> After having read through all of the posts on the UNRV forum on

this

> matter, I'm quite amused...and curious. When you have a free

moment,

> could you kindly see what hidden Roman name you can find in this:
>
> ceeijjklmorsy [[Male]]
>
> Until the next time,
> [pending to be] D. Saturius Praeconinus
> [[PS: My apologies if I got the greeting wrong; Latin is a fairly

new

> realm for me.]]
>

Q. Caecilius Metellus Senatui Populoque Quiritium Romano salutem dicit.

QVOD BONVM FAVSTVM FELIX FORTVNATVMQVE SIT POPVLO ROMANO QUIRITIBVS

In absentia Pontifici Maximi, as the convening pontifex, I announce the
results of the last meeting of the Collegium Pontificum.

The Collegium Pontificum having met to determine:

I. A Recommendation to the Senate on the Feriae to be Observed L.
Arminio Ti. Galerio coss.; and,

II. The reappointment of Diana Octavia Aventina to the position of
Veneris Aedis Sacerdos

the decisions were that

I. The Collegium recommends to the Senate that the following feriae be
observed L. Arminio Ti. Galerio coss.:

L. Apollinares
L. Cereales
L. Florales
L. Magnae Matri Deum
L. Plebeii
L. Romani
F. Aesculapio
F. Annae Perennae
F. Latinae*
F. Maiae
F. Marti
F. Sementivae*
F. Vicae Potae
ad Argeorum Sacella Procedere
ad Manes Placendos Dies
Agonium Decembre
Agonium Ianuarianum
Agonium Maianum
Agonium Martiale
Ambarvalia
Arma movere ancilla
Armilustrium
Carmentalia
Cerealia
Consualia Sextilia
Consualia Decembra
Divalia
Equirria
Equus October
Faunalia
Feralia
Floralia
Fontinalia
Fordicidia
Fornacalia*
Furrinalia
Larentalia
Lemuria
Lucaria
Lupercalia
Matralia
Meditrinalia
Neptunalia
Opalia
Opiconsivia
Palilia
Poplifugium
Portunalia
Quinquatrus Martiales
Quinquatrus Minisculae
Quirinalia
Regifugium
Robigalia
Saturnalia
Terminalia
Tubilustrium Martiale
Tubilustrium Maianum
Veneralia
Vestalia
Vinalia Priora
Vinalia Rustica
Virgo Vestalis Parentat
Volcanalia
Volturnalia

(Those followed with an asterisk (*) are 'moveable' festivals (i.e.,
feriae conceptivae); the abbreviations are L[udi] and F[eriae].)

; and that,

II. Diana Octavia Aventina is returned to the position of Veneris Aedis
Sacerdos.

cum obsignatione Q. Caecili Metelli pontificis a.d. VI Non. Ian. ad
Senatum et Populum Romanum adnuntiata hac responsa.

Q. Caecilius Metellus Quiritibus salutem.

In my publication of these results, I realise that I forgot three words.
In Item II, it should read:

II. The Collegium recommends to the Senate that the following feriae be
observed *by the State* L. Arminio Ti. Galerio coss. ...

Mea culpa.

QCM

Agricola Metello sal.

I have a few questions: I understand if it is the case that there is
no answer yet to some of them.

Does "L. Cereales" mean the Cerealia? Or is it different?

Is there a timetable for setting dates of movable feriae?

Will the dates follow the table you posted on the wiki
http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Feriae ?

ago tibi gratias

optime vale!




--- In Nova-Roma@yahoogroups.com, "Q. Caecilius Metellus"
<postumianus@...> wrote:

>
> Q. Caecilius Metellus Senatui Populoque Quiritium Romano salutem dicit.
>
> QVOD BONVM FAVSTVM FELIX FORTVNATVMQVE SIT POPVLO ROMANO QUIRITIBVS
>
> In absentia Pontifici Maximi, as the convening pontifex, I announce the
> results of the last meeting of the Collegium Pontificum.
>
> The Collegium Pontificum having met to determine:
>
> I. A Recommendation to the Senate on the Feriae to be Observed L.
> Arminio Ti. Galerio coss.; and,
>
> II. The reappointment of Diana Octavia Aventina to the position of
> Veneris Aedis Sacerdos
>
> the decisions were that
>
> I. The Collegium recommends to the Senate that the following feriae be
> observed L. Arminio Ti. Galerio coss.:
>
> L. Apollinares
> L. Cereales
> L. Florales
> L. Magnae Matri Deum
> L. Plebeii
> L. Romani
> F. Aesculapio
> F. Annae Perennae
> F. Latinae*
> F. Maiae
> F. Marti
> F. Sementivae*
> F. Vicae Potae
> ad Argeorum Sacella Procedere
> ad Manes Placendos Dies
> Agonium Decembre
> Agonium Ianuarianum
> Agonium Maianum
> Agonium Martiale
> Ambarvalia
> Arma movere ancilla
> Armilustrium
> Carmentalia
> Cerealia
> Consualia Sextilia
> Consualia Decembra
> Divalia
> Equirria
> Equus October
> Faunalia
> Feralia
> Floralia
> Fontinalia
> Fordicidia
> Fornacalia*
> Furrinalia
> Larentalia
> Lemuria
> Lucaria
> Lupercalia
> Matralia
> Meditrinalia
> Neptunalia
> Opalia
> Opiconsivia
> Palilia
> Poplifugium
> Portunalia
> Quinquatrus Martiales
> Quinquatrus Minisculae
> Quirinalia
> Regifugium
> Robigalia
> Saturnalia
> Terminalia
> Tubilustrium Martiale
> Tubilustrium Maianum
> Veneralia
> Vestalia
> Vinalia Priora
> Vinalia Rustica
> Virgo Vestalis Parentat
> Volcanalia
> Volturnalia
>
> (Those followed with an asterisk (*) are 'moveable' festivals (i.e.,
> feriae conceptivae); the abbreviations are L[udi] and F[eriae].)
>
> ; and that,
>
> II. Diana Octavia Aventina is returned to the position of Veneris Aedis
> Sacerdos.
>
> cum obsignatione Q. Caecili Metelli pontificis a.d. VI Non. Ian. ad
> Senatum et Populum Romanum adnuntiata hac responsa.
>

Salve Aventina,

Happy New Year to you too. All the best wishes for your recovery.

Vale bene
Titus Flavius Aquila ( from the Provinciae Germania)







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Salvete,
I wish all Nova Romans good health and happiness in 2007!

And sorry for being quiet this month. I've broken my right elbow (and I'm
right handed) so typing lefty or just sitting by the computer with a cast
from my fingertips to my shoulder is uncomfortable. I'll be back in
fighting force eventually :-)
Valete,
Diana

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Salvete,

You both - Concordia doesn´t help citizens who like to pin each other.

Valete bene in pacem deorum,
L. Arminius Faustus


2007/1/1, Maior <rory12001@...>:

>
> -Maior Iulio salutem dicit;
> May I suggest you have a happy start to your New Year &
> congratulate someone who actually did something for the res publica?
> Kindly drop this juvenile feud with me as I am doing & lets thank
> Sabinus who has honoured Magna Mater, Agricola for designing our
> coin that depicts Iuppiter, Avitus who teaches Latin to all of us,
> Saturninus who designed & sells a calendar that shows all the Fasti.
> Astur, Faustus for taking time from their work to make sound
> recordings for our podcast.
> I salute them all & so should you.
> bene vale
> M. Hortensia Maior
>
>
> Concordia reigned because you did not post. May the Gods
> give us such a year.
> >
> > Vale.
> >
> > Scaurus
> >
>
>
>

--
Valete bene in pacem deorum,
L. Arminius Faustus

"Vigilando, agendo, bene consulendo, prospera omnia cedunt" - Salustius


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ave Sabine,

thank you very much amice for what you've done along this year in the
MM Project!

And.....even tought a little late, HAPPY NEW YEAR and WELCOME TO THE
EVROPEAN VNION!

vale optime

M IVL PERVSIANVS

--- In Nova-Roma@yahoogroups.com, "Maior" <rory12001@...> wrote:
>
> M. Hortensia T. Iulio Sabino;
> Sabine, forgive me for not congratulating you on this wonderful
> acheivement sooner (New Years festivities;-)
>
> You & your cohors have done an incredible job on the Magna Mater
> Project; the medallion is a terrific idea, the monies raised is
> truly impressive. My thanks to all the cives you have contributed. I
> have silently worked on 3 cohors for MM & You & your cohors'
> devotion with your time & labour is a true tribute to the Protectrix
> of Rome & a delight to the gods.
>
> Last year was a great year for Nova Roma with the Coin Project, the
> NR Wiki, Academia Thules,Domus Agricola etc in the Macellum selling
> Roman items, Vox Romana, & the Magna Mater Project.
> may this year be even greater; we certainly
> have the benevolence of the Mother of the Gods
> by your pious deeds
> bene valete in pacem Matris Deorum
> Maior
>
>
>
> > SALVETE NOVI ROMANI!
> >
> > "Who is the Mother of the Gods? She is the source of the
> > intellectual and creative Gods, who in their turn guide the
> Visible
> > Gods; she is both the Mother and the Spouse of Mighty Zeus; she
> came
> > into being next and together with the Great Creator; she is in
> > control of every form of life and the course of all generations;
> she
> > easily brings to perfection all things that are made; without pain
> > she brings to birth; She is the Motherless Maiden, enthroned at
> the
> > very side of Zeus, and in very truth is the Mother of All the
> > Gods....."
> > - Emperor Julian II 'the Blessed', from an Oration to Cybele
> > composed at Pessinus MCXVI A.V.C.
> >
> > I. General consideration.
> >
> > Last year it was an important year for the Magna Mater Project. It
> > was the year when the Official Magna Mater website it was
> presented.
> > It is available at the following internet address:
> > http://www.magnamaterproject.org/en/home.php
> > There are all the necessary dates about the Project, initiated in
> > 2002 by Caeso Fabius Buteo Quintilianus and his Cohort and
> developed
> > with great results by the next Aediles and Aedilician Cohorts of
> > Franciscus Apulus Caesar, Marcus Iulius Perusianus and Lucius
> Iulius
> > Sulla.
> > Thank you, Aediles, for your excellent job and dedication to the
> > Project!
> >
> > As Project Coordinator for this year my first goal it was to
> > establish a line for the Project development. For that, first, I
> > created the necessaries structures: my Cohort and Magna Mater
> > Collegium with specific duties.
> > The members are listed in the following web pages:
> > http://www.crystalwebvision.com/aedil/aediles.htm
> > http://www.crystalwebvision.com/aedil/magnamater.htm
> >
> > At the beginning of the year I decided to start a campaign for the
> > Magna Mater website promotion, inside our organization first and
> > then outside of Nova Roma.
> > This campaign is in correlation with the fundraising campaign, a
> > continuous objective for me, my Cohort and MMP Collegium.
> >
> > II. Magna Mater Project promotion.
> >
> > The promotion of the Magna Mater Project and official website it
> was
> > for me the next logically step after the website it was presented
> on
> > line.
> > With the help of the dedicated members of both Aedilician Cohorts
> a
> > draft page for promotion it was realized.
> > http://www.dacia-novaroma.org/draft.htm
> > My special thanks to the following citizens involved in this job:
> > Aulla Tullia Scholastica - text editor.
> > Tita Artoria Marcella - text editor.
> > Iulia Caesar Cytheris Aege - text editor.
> > Gnaeus Equitius Marinus - text editor.
> > Gnaeus Iulius Caesar - web responsibilities
> > Oppius Fabius Montanus - web responsibilities.
> >
> > I started the promotion campaign in a lot of our organization
> > structures, from the provincials' one to the central
> administration
> > and directly to the Nova Roma members. Is difficult to keep an
> > evidence of those who were receptive and help us with the
> promotion.
> > But I want to present some of them:
> > - NR website - Valerius Callidus and Equitius Marinus.
> > - Academia Thule - Caius Saturninus.
> > - Archaeology Blog - Apollonius Scipio.
> > - Gallia - Apollonius Scipio.
> > - Canada Occidentalis - Suetonius Paulinus and Vipsanius Agrippa.
> > - Italia - Franciscus Caesar.
> > - Dacia – Iulius Sabinus.
> > - Gens Iulia - Iulia Caesaris.
> > - Gens Minucia - Minucia Marcella.
> > - Pannonia ML - Cornelius Lentulus.
> > - Mexic ML - Iulius Severus.
> > - Germania - Flavius Conservatus.
> > - Egressus - Gn. Iulius Caesar.
> > - Go Roman Project - Gn. Iulius Caesar.
> > - Mediatlantica - Gn. Equitius Marinus.
> > - Canada Orientalis - Pompeia Minucia Strabo.
> >
> > With the dedication of M. Lucretius Agricola, our project is now
> > present on the Nova Roma Wiki pages:
> > http://www.novaroma.org/wiki/Magna_Mater_project
> >
> > III. Magna Mater Fundraising campaign.
> >
> > How I said the Project promotion is in correlation with the
> > fundraising campaign. A new page was created:
> > http://www.dacia-novaroma.org/draft2.htm
> > My thanks to G. Aurelia falco Silvana for the english correction
> of
> > the text.
> >
> > The balance at the end of the year 2758 a.U.c, reported by the
> hon.
> > Iulius Sulla's Quaestor, Lucius Rutilius Minervalis, it was at
> > 2759.25 USD and 611.89 Euro.
> > At this year end the Project fund balance is at 3656.77 USD and 11
> > Euro, reported by the hon. Quaestor Marcus Iulius Perusianus.
> >
> > We, the Magnae Matris Collegium, the Aedilician Cohorts and the
> > Aediles, want to thank you for your donations. It is a testament
> to
> > your dedication to the ongoing development of the Magna Mater
> > Project.
> >
> > This year MMP investors are:
> > - G. Iulius Verus.
> > - A. Tullius Marcellus Cato.
> > - T. Galerius Paulinus.
> > - A. Minucia Marcella.
> > - S. Ullerius Venator.
> > - M. Iunius Iulianus.
> > - Edward LeBlanc.
> > - Ti. Iulia Pulchra.
> > - L. Cassia Silvana.
> > - Q. Suetonius Paulinus.
> >
> > All the MMP investors are:
> > - A. Minucia Marcella = 19.12 USD.
> > - A. Tullius Marcellus Cato = 96.95 USD.
> > - C. Curius Saturninus = 15 Euro.
> > - C. Iulius Scaurus = 52.5 USD.
> > - C. Iulius Verus = 2225.6 USD.
> > - C.Vipsanius Agrippa = 20.64 Euro.
> > - Compagnia delle Armi e delle Arti - Bologna = 40 Euro.
> > - Diana Octavia Aventina = 15 Euro.
> > - Edward LeBlanc = 18.92 USD.
> > - Emilia Curia Finnica = 15 Euro.
> > - Franciscus Apulus Caesar = 18 Euro.
> > - Gallus Minicius-Tiberius Iovinus = 11 Euro.
> > - Iulia Caesaris = 85 USD.
> > - K. Fabius Buteo Quintilianus = 20 Euro.
> > - L. Cassia Silvana = 20 USD.
> > - M. Darius Firmitus = 19.12 USD.
> > - M. Iunius Iulianus = 19.12 USD.
> > - M. Iulius Perusianus = 9.75 USD.
> > - Nova Roma Inc = 1663 USD.
> > - Pompeia Minucia Strabo = 34.76 Euro.
> > - Rotaract Club Pisa = 200 Euro.
> > - Sextius Appolonius Scipio = 10 USD.
> > - Sextius Pontius Pilatus Barbatus = 19.12 USD.
> > - Stephanus Ullerius Venator = 48.25 USD.
> > - Ti. Galerius Paulinus = 138.24 USD.
> > - Ti. Iulia Pulchra = 38 USD.
> > - T. Artoria Marcella = 20 USD.
> > - T. Iulius Sabinus = 61.6 Euro.
> > - Q. Fabius Allectus = 11 Euro.
> > - Q. Suetonius Paulinus = 55.10 USD.
> >
> > Franciscus Apulus Caesar will upload in the first days of January
> > (we have one more day for donations!!!) the Magna Mater website
> > investors section, with the name and the donations of this
> honorable
> > citizens.
> > http://www.magnamaterproject.org/en/project/investors.htm
> > To support the Project, please visit this page:
> > http://www.magnamaterproject.org/en/project/support.htm
> >
> > III. Magna Mater promotionals.
> >
> > The first Magna Mater Project promotional objects were produced: t-
> > shirts and business cards.
> > Destinations:
> > - 5 t-shirts and 50 business cards - to Nova Roma Conventus from
> > Hadrian Wall.
> > - 50 business cards - to Provincia Italia.
> > The producer is Caius Curius Saturninus, based by his great
> > experience (see the calendar):
> > http://www.insulaumbra.com/calendar/
> > With this occasion I want to thank to Curius Saturninus for his
> > dedication. A part from his calendars profit is redirected to the
> > Magna Mater Project.
> >
> > IV. Magna Mater Project - Research section.
> >
> > 1. Magna Mater - Latin inscriptions around the world.
> > The researchers' team was composed of M. Moravius Horatianus
> > Piscinus, T. Artoria Marcella and M. Sempronia Justina. They have
> > gone more than 60.000 inscriptions covering all the historical
> roman
> > provinces. All the dates were centralized inside the Cohort group,
> > and I hope, that we will create the necessaries premises to
> present
> > a book with all inscriptions.
> >
> > 2. Magna Mater – Medallion project.
> > The researchers' team was composed of M. Lucretius Agricola and L.
> > Galeria Mira Pictrix. The design was finished and in the next year
> > the MMP Collegium will choose the medallion legends and it will be
> > produced.
> > http://www.crystalwebvision.com/aedil/medallion.htm
> >
> > V. Frequently Asked Questions.
> >
> > For the new citizens I want to add to this bulletin the Iulius
> > Perusianus FAQ, presented by Consul Pompeia Minucia Strabo:
> >
> > "We publish this list of questions and answers periodically for
> the
> > benefit of those not familiar with the project or its goals. We
> > hope this is helpful to those new to Nova Roma.
> > My thanks to F. Apulus Caesar Consul and Marcus Iulius Perusianus,
> > Praetor 2758 Curulis Aedilis 2757, for the information in this
> > section.
> >
> > ???COULD SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME THE PURPOSE OF THE MAGNA MATER
> > PROJECT???
> >
> > The ultimate goal is the restoration of the temple, but this is
> > honestly very long term, especially when one takes into account
> our
> > current financial situation. But even having money, there are
> > several other small, but necessary steps which are already under
> > development to 'restore' the temple, in a wider significance of
> the
> > meaning. To restore it also means to 'valorize' the sanctuary,
> its
> > historical and archaeological aspects, and the significance of the
> > cult of the Magna Mater. Put another way, 'enhancing' would be
> > perhaps a better term for these first steps of the Project.
> > Periodically, a bulletin such as this report is published to keep
> > the citizenry apprised of project developments.
> >
> > ????HOW ARE DONATIONS FROM NOVA ROMA UTILIZED IN THE MAGNA
> MATER
> > PROJECT???
> >
> > Consider this list of things to do in the near future (as part of
> > the MM project):
> > i. official website
> > ii. material to promote this project (leaflets publications,
> DVD
> > with topographical introduction to the location, archaeological
> > remains and evidences, history of the Sanctuary of the Cult of
> > Cybele in Rome
> > iii. a six-month scholarship for a student of the University
> of
> > Rome
> > iv. multimedia CD Rom (See section II of this bulletin to
> review
> > details.)
> >
> > ???WHAT IS THE RETURN ON THIS INVESTMENT? WHY IS THE MAGNA
> > MATER PROJECT SO IMPORTANT???
> >
> > It is important because it permits NR to spread its name into
> the
> > academic world, and provides the mechanism by which we may be
> > entitled to manage Roman monuments. It's an opportunity to make
> our
> > name known in the macro national, physical world, after having
> done
> > so much in the virtual, electronic world.
> >
> > WILL NOVA ROMA EVER BE ALLOWED TO HOLD RITUAL THERE TO MAGNA
> > MATER???
> >
> > ...Marcus Iulius Perusianus answersÂ…
> >
> > A certain number of NR citizens were able to visit the proximity
> of
> > the temple this past April, courtesy of a special pass by the
> > Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma (the entire south-west side of
> > the Palatine, the Germalus, has been closed for the past 5-7
> > years). We were accompanied by a guardian for almost the entire
> > visit, and at our tour of the house of Augustus, I guess a very
> > simple rite could have been held. I believe that a longer than 5
> > minute ceremony, with an attendance of more than 10-15 people,
> would
> > hardly be tolerated. I am not talking about 'religious'
> > intolerance; it is just a question of security. Soprintendenza is
> > working in the Germalus areas, and it is not easy to attain
> > permission to enter. Honestly, I think to have a ritual there is
> > currently quite impossible. Mind you, I am only speaking of what
> I
> > foresee during my Aedileship.
> >
> > ???WHAT HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE DO THE TREES CURRENTLY GROWING ON
> > TOP OF THE MM SANCTUARY HOLD? WHY ARE THEY MORE HISTORICALLY
> > IMPORTANT THAN THE RESTORATION OF ONE OF THE MORE IMPORTANT TEMPLE
> > SITES OF ROME???
> >
> > Â…Marcus Iulius Perusianus answersÂ…
> >
> > I have asked this of the manager of the Palatine ruins.
> Currently,
> > it is deemed a useless effort to cut these environmentally and
> > historically protected trees, as the only part of the structure
> > remaining is the basement of the temple (not considering the short
> > remains of a couple of columns). We won't have a better view of
> the
> > bricks with the presence of these trees, which have been there for
> > some centuries. The general guidelines of the Soprintendenza
> > Archeologica di Roma are to maintain the monuments as they are,
> > unless there is original material of the structure to position in
> > their respective places. And, even when these materials are
> found,
> > it takes a lot of time to study exactly where they fit. It is a
> > matter of academic official opinion that not a single
> reconstruction
> > effort can be made without appropriate archaeological evidence to
> > support such action."
> >
> > --------------------------
> > I want to present my special thanks to all the investors for their
> > wonderful support, in the name of the Curules Aediles, both
> Cohorts
> > and Magna Mater Collegium.
> > I want to thank to MMP Collegium and to my Aedilician Cohort for
> > their excellent job.
> > I want to thank to the excellent Quaestor M Iulius Perusianus for
> > his job and friendship.
> >
> > Romani from Magna Mater Collegium and Cohors Sabina Pia Fidelis :
> > To work together it was a great honor for me !
> >
> >
> > VALETE,
> > IVL SABINVS
> > MMP 2759 a.U.c Custodiant
> > Curule Aedile
> >
>

Agricola Omnibus sal.

I would like to ask all incoming magistrates to take a moment to
attend to some wiki matters.


1. If this is your first step on the Cursus Honorum, please add

[[Category: Magistrates (Nova Roma)]]

to your bio page in the wiki. If you don't have a bio page, please
create one. If you need help, please contact me or post a message to
the NRWiki list.


2. As quaestors are assigned, please update the appropriate entry at
http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Category:Magistrates_%28Nova_Roma%29


3. Please consider appointing one scriba the job of handling your wiki
posts. This would include posting edicta and adding to the annals at
http://www.novaroma.org/nr/MMDCCLX It is strongly urged that this
person subscribe to NRWiki.


many thanks to you all

optime valete

SALVE ET SALVETE !

--- In Nova-Roma@yahoogroups.com, "Marcus Iulius Perusianus"
<peraznanie@...> wrote:

> thank you very much amice for what you've done along this year in

the MM Project!>>>

Thank you. All were possible because my Cohort members and Magna Mater
Collegium members. And I had an incredible and wonderful chance to
have you as Quaestor.
I want to thanks to the Gods for this and then to you all, optimi
amici, who were near me in my aedilician job. Finally I want to thank
to my lovely wife, Arria Carina, who take over a lot from my macro
national responsibilities and created for me the necessaries
conditions to have time to do my job.

> And.....even tought a little late, HAPPY NEW YEAR and WELCOME TO THE

EVROPEAN VNION!>>>

Yes, this is a great event. I'm proud and happy as time as I'm one who
contributed inside my country boundaries to the reconstruction. I
belong to the noble and good part of Romania and I believe in its good
faith.
Forty years of communism are nothing in the Romania history. We were
able to pass moments more difficult in our history. Now we have a good
reason to change all in good: the future of our children.
I believe in our European family, I believe in our world family and in
the great future of all humanity.

From Dacia, I salute you !
IVL SABINVS

OSD C. Equitius Cato

Salvete omnes!

Hodie est postridie Kalendas Ianuarius (a.d. IV Nonas Ianuarius); haec
dies fastus aterque est.

"By the order of Amulius some of his servants took the babes [Romulus
and Remus] in an ark and carried them to the river, distant about a
hundred and twenty stades from the city, with the intention of
throwing them into it. But when they drew near and perceived that the
Tiber, swollen by continual rains, had left its natural bed and
overflowed the plains, they came down from the top of the Palatine
hill to that part of the water that lay nearest (for they could no
longer advance any farther) and set down the ark upon the flood where
it washed the foot of the hill. The ark floated for some time, and
then, as the waters retired by degrees from their extreme limits, it
struck against a stone and, overturning, threw out the babes, who lay
whimpering and wallowing in the mud. Upon this, a she-wolf that had
just whelped appeared and, her udder being distended with milk, gave
them her paps to suck and with her tongue licked off the mud with
which they were besmeared. In the meantime the herdsmen happened to be
driving their flocks forth to pasture (for the place was now become
passable) and one of them, seeing the wolf thus fondling the babes,
was for some time struck dumb with astonishment and disbelief of what
he saw. Then going away and getting together as many as he could of
his fellows who kept their herds near at hand (for they would not
believe what he said), he led them to see the sight themselves. When
these also drew near and saw the wolf caring for the babes as if they
had been her young and the babes clinging to her as to their mother,
they thought they were beholding a supernatural sight and advanced in
a body, shouting to terrify the creature. The wolf, however, far from
being provoked at the approach of the men, but as if she had been
tame, withdrew gently from the babes and went away, paying little heed
to the rabble of shepherds. Now there was not far off a holy place,
arched over by a dense wood, and a hollow rock from which springs
issued; the wood was said to be consecrated to Pan, and there was an
altar there to that god. To this place, then, the wolf came and hid
herself. The grove, to be sure, no longer remains, but the cave from
which the spring flows is still pointed out, built up against the side
of the Palatine hill on the road which leads to the Circus, and near
it is a sacred precinct in which there is a statue commemorating the
incident; it represents a she-wolf suckling two infants, the figures
being in bronze and of ancient workmanship. This spot is said to have
been a holy place of the Arcadians who formerly settled there with
Evander.

As soon as the beast was gone the herdsmen took up the babes, and
believing that the god desired their preservation, were eager to bring
them up. There was among them the keeper of the royal herds of swine,
whose name was Faustulus, an upright man, who had been in town upon
some necessary business at the time when the deflowering of Ilia and
her delivery were made public. And afterwards, when the babes were
being carried to the river, he had by some providential chance taken
the same road to the Palatine hill and gone along with those who were
carrying them. this man, without giving the least intimation to the
others that he knew anything of the affair, asked that the babes might
be delivered to him, and having received them by general consent, he
carried them home to his wife. And finding that she had just given
birth to a child and was grieving because it was still-born, he
comforted her and gave her these children to substitute in its place,
informing her of every circumstance of their fortune from the
beginning. And as they grew older he gave to one the name of Romulus
and to the other that of Remus. When they came to be men, they showed
themselves both in dignity of aspect and elevation of mind not like
swineherds and neatherds, but such as we might expect those to be who
are born of royal race and are looked upon as the offspring of the
gods; and as such they are still celebrated by the Romans in the hymns
of their country. But their life was that of herdsmen, and they lived
by their own labour, generally upon the mountains in huts which they
built, roofs and all, out of sticks and reeds. One of these, called
the hut of Romulus, remained even to my day on the flank of the
Palatine hill which faces towards the Circus, and it is preserved holy
by those who have charge of these matters; they add nothing to it to
render it more stately, but if any part of it is injured, either by
storms or by the lapse of time, they repair the damage and restore the
hut as nearly as possible to its former condition." - Dionysius of
Halicarnassus, "Roman Antiquities" 1.79.iiii-xi


"At Patavium, there was a well-known prophet called Caius Cornelius,
who was a fellow-citizen and acquaintance of Livy the historian. On
the day of the battle this man happened to be sitting at his prophetic
work and first, according to Livy, he realized that the battle was
taking place at that very moment and said to those who were present
that now was the time when matters were being decided and now the
troops were going into action; then he had a second look and, when he
had examined the signs, he jumped up in a kind of ecstasy and cried
out: 'Caesar, the victory is yours!' Those who were standing by were
amazed at him, but he took the garland from his head and solemnly
swore that he would not wear it again until facts had proved that his
arts had revealed the truth to him. Livy, certainly, is most emphatic
that this really happened." - Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Caesar" 47

"There is this exceptionally beneficial and fruitful advantage to be
derived from the study of the past, that you see, set in the clear
light of historical truth, examples of every possible type. From these
you may select for yourself and your country what to imitate, and also
what, as being mischievous in its inception and disastrous in its
issues, you are to avoid. Unless, however, I am misled by affection
for my undertaking, there has never existed any commonwealth greater
in power, with a purer morality, or more fertile in good examples; or
any state in which avarice and luxury have been so late in making
their inroads, or poverty and frugality so highly and continuously
honoured, showing so clearly that the less wealth men possessed the
less they coveted. In these latter years wealth has brought avarice in
its train, and the unlimited command of pleasure has created in men a
passion for ruining themselves and everything else through
self-indulgence and licentiousness. But criticisms which will be
unwelcome, even when perhaps necessary, must not appear in the
commencement at all events of this extensive work. We should much
prefer to start with favourable omens, and if we could have adopted
the poets' custom, it would have been much pleasanter to commence with
prayers and supplications to gods and goddesses that they would grant
a favourable and successful issue to the great task before us." -
Livy, History of Rome, Preface

On this day in A.D. 17, the historian Titus Livius (Livy) died,
probably at Padua. In antiquity, Livy was praised by many authors.
Writing during the reign of the emperor Domitian, Quintilian states
that Romans Livy and Sallustius were the equals of the Greek
historians Herodotus of Halicarnassus and Thucydides. This was, at the
end of the first century, the greatest praise possible --- it was only
during the age of the Severan emperors that the Romans had sufficient
cultural self-confidence to bluntly state that they no longer cared
about Greek civilization. When Livy told a story, Quintilian said, it
was clear as crystal, and his speeches were eloquent beyond
description. Quintilian was not the only one to praise the author of
the History of Rome from its foundation. In 79, Pliny the Younger
preferred reading Livy to the spectacle of the explosion of the
Vesuvius. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Livy was still admired
for his style, and this has never changed.


Valete bene!

Cato



SOURCES

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Livy

Edictum Consular 02/07 - Calling for interpreters

"I was always of opinion, Conscript Fathers, as I had often heard my
father observe, that those who cultivated your friendship might indeed
have an arduous service to perform, but would be of all people the
most secure"

SALUSTIUS, The Jurgurtine War, Gutenberg Project, [sn], [sl]


L. Arminius Faustus Consul S.P.D.

I ask all citizes who desires to undertake the office of interpreter
on 2007 to send me your names and language mastered until the ides of
ianuarius (15). The same applies for current interpreters who wants a
new term.

The names will be submited to the first Senate meeting of 2007 (the
initial forecast is by the end of ianurius or begging of february,
still to confirm). The service of the interpreter starts since the
releasing of the result of the Senatusconsultum no the forum of the
main list.

I recall the interpreter has Potestas (granted by the Senate) to afirm
the validation of a version of an official NR text on another
language.

A citizen can send to the consul the name after 15th ianuarius,
however, the name may only be submited to the second senate meeting
the consules have not forecasted yet. So, I urge the citizens to
respect the data, so the term serving can be early.

More information can be seen on the Tabularium on Lex Cornelia de
Linguis Publicis. I recall new languages can be available by a
SenatusConsultum.

On this edictum, I´d like to praise also our WikiMagistrates by such
good tools on NR website that can provide us quick reference to any
piece of legislation we want.

Valete bene in pacem deorum,
L. Arminius Faustus, Consul

"Vigilando, agendo, bene consulendo, prospera omnia cedunt" - Salustius