In that chapter, Eusebius first describes the background including Festus, and mentions Clement and Hegesippus.

It has been suggested that the passage in Festus describes a transvestite initiation ritual.

However, the sea may have been known to earlier mariners, as a poem by the late 4th century AD author, Rufus Festus Avienus, describes a portion of the Atlantic as being covered with seaweed, citing a now-lost account by the 5th-century BC Carthaginian explorer Himilco the Navigator.

Festus identifies her only as a dea paganorum, " goddess of the pagans.

She had an image ( simulacrum ) in the Forum, and her cultus, as Festus notes, spread from there throughout the neighborhoods ( vici ) of the city .< ref > Festus 416 ( edition of Lindsay ): " An image of Stata Mater used to be venerated in the Forum.

According to Festus, she changed her name to Gaia Caecilia ( called Gaia Cyrilla in Boccaccio's On Famous Women ) when she arrived at Rome, although some Roman historians also commonly spelled her name Caia Caecilia or Caia Cyrilla.

She also delivered a three-hour address to the board of trustees of Williams College in order to gain admittance for her son Festus.

Ovid says that this festival was celebrated in commemoration of the birthday of Minerva ; but according to Festus it was sacred to Minerva because her temple on the Aventine was consecrated on that day.

Despite the outcome of the synod, Laurentius returned to Rome, and for the next four years, according to the " Laurentian Fragment ", he held its churches and ruled as pope with the support of the senator Festus.

Agrippa II, son of Agrippa I, was asked, with his sister Berenice, by the Roman Procurator of Judea, Porcius Festus, to assist in the mini-trial of the Apostle Paul.

According to Dumezil, Festus ' identification of Bona Dea with Damia infers a foundation date in or shortly after 272 BC, after Rome's capture of Tarentum ; but Cicero claimed the goddess ' cult as coeval with Rome's foundation.

The " flowing stone " … must not be confused with the stone of the same name which, according to Festus, was the gateway to the underworld.

Without making serious practice of the law he settled at Basford, and for three years was occupied with the composition of Festus, which appeared anonymously in 1839.

The subsequent poems of Bailey, The Angel World ( 1850 ), The Mystic ( 1855 ), The Age ( 1858 ), and The Universal Hymn ( 1867 ), were failures, and the author adopted the unfortunate expedient of endeavouring to buoy them up by incorporating large extracts in the later editions of Festus, with the effect only of sinking the latter, which ultimately extended to over 40, 000 lines.

Festus and other ancient authors explain Curiatius by the aetiological legend of the Tigillum, the expiation undergone by P. Horatius when victorious over the Alban Curiatii, for the murder of his own sister, by walking under a beam with his head veiled.

It is one of three major Latin dictionaries preserved from antiquity, along with that of Festus, which was an epitome of Verrius Flaccus ' work De verborum significatu, and the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville.

* Festus ( died 305 ), martyr along with Proculus of Pozzuoli

The earliest account of associating the Meditrinalia with such a goddess was by 2nd century grammarian Sextus Pompeius Festus, on the basis of which she is asserted by modern sources to be the Roman goddess of health, longevity and wine, with an etymological meaning of " healer " suggested by some.

He began his career with an edition and commentary of Festus ' De verborum significatione, and was the first to produce a " readable " text of the 20-book work.

The most important of his works were his editions of Pompeius Festus and Verrius Flaccus, and his translations of Horace ( with notes ), Aristotle's Poetics, the Electra and Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles ; Epictetus, Hippocrates and Plutarch's Lives.

Dacier's work on Festus was first published in Paris, 1681, with subsequent editions in 1692, 1699, and 1700.

In the 2nd century AD, Sextus Pompeius Festus wrote an encyclopedic work with entries in alphabetic order.

The use of double consonants, which has been already pointed out in the Messapian inscriptions, has been very acutely connected by Deecke with the tradition that the same practice was introduced at Rome by the poet Ennius who came from the Messapian town Rudiae ( Festus, p. 293 M ).

Festus calls him " a god endowed with the power of doing everything ", then citing an Aufustius: " Genius is the son of the gods and the parent of men, from whom men receive life.

On May 25, episode of Raw, Goldust teamed up with Hornswoggle in a tag team match, where they defeated Festus and The Brian Kendrick.

About Januarius, the account says only that he was " bishop as well as martyr, an illustrious member of the Neapolitan church " The Acta Bononensia says that " At Pozzuoli in Campania honored the memory of the holy martyrs Januarius, Bishop of Beneventum, Festus his deacon, and Desiderius lector, together with Sossius deacon of the church of Misenum, Proculus, deacon of Pozzuoli, Eutyches and Acutius, who after chains and imprisonment were beheaded under the Emperor Diocletian ".

The town also has a rich history in the Botswana Government, with Sir Seretse Khama, the first president of Botswana, current president, President Lieutenant General Ian Khama, and former president, Festus Mogae, all having been born in Serowe.

He stayed with Gunsmoke through its entire run and was often shown sparring in a friendly manner with costars Dennis Weaver and Ken Curtis, who played, respectively, Chester Goode and deputy Festus Haggen.

Centuries later, the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus in his Rhomaike Archaiologia ( Antiquitates romanae, " Roman Antiquities "), quoting Antioch of Syracuse states that Italus was an Oenotrian by birth and retells this account that Italia was named after him, alongside the other account that Italia derives its name from a word for calf, an etymology also stated by Timaeus, Varro ( Rerum Rusticarum, 2. 5 ), and Festus.

The grammarian Festus says that it was named for a Cispius Laevus of Anagnia, of the Publilia voting tribe ( tribus ).

However, Yakubu was not named later in the year in the squad selected by new manager Festus Onigbinde for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea.

He proposes to interpret the term as referring to the peculiar style of hairdressing of brides, known as seni crines which would find support in Festus: " Comptus id est ornatus ... qui apud nos comis: et comae dicuntur capilli cum aliqua cura compositi ", " Comptus i. e. adorned ... what we call comis ; and comae is named the hair dressed with a certain care ".

He makes up for it by talking to himself ( or, rather, his horse named Festus ) as present events progress, providing us with a running commentary.

Paul also wrote an epitome, which has survived, of Sextus Pompeius Festus ' De significatu verborum.

Festus, on the contrary ( s. v. Ausoniam ), related that it was founded by Auson, a son of Ulysses and Circe ; a tradition which indicates that it was an ancient Ausonian city, previous to its conquest by the Samnites.

The 2nd-century AD grammarian Festus defined penus, however, as " the most secret site in the shrine of Vesta, which is surrounded by curtains.

Festus was settled shortly after the establishment of New Detroit ( later Crystal City ), which was a dry company town.

Chester and Festus Haggen are perhaps Dillon's most recognizable sidekicks, though there were others who would become acting-deputies for two and a half to seven and a half year stints: Quint Asper ( Burt Reynolds ) ( 1962 – 1965 ), Thad Greenwood ( Roger Ewing ) ( 1966 – 1968 ), and Newly O ' Brian ( Buck Taylor ) ( 1967 – 1975 ), who served as both back-up deputy and doctor-in-training, having some studies in medicine via his uncle which then continued under Doc Adams.

Of these opinions the third, which is also given by Festus, seems to come nearest the truth.

Festus ' character was known, in part, for his nasally, twangy, rural accent which Curtis developed for the role, but which did not reflect Curtis ' actual voice.

The film contains folk songs led by the Sons of the Pioneers, one of which is Ken Curtis ( Ford's son-in-law and best known for his role as Festus Haggen on Gunsmoke ).

According to Josephus, " the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James " met his death after the death of the procurator Porcius Festus, yet before Lucceius Albinus took office — which has thus been dated to 62.

Respecting the ceremonies of this festival nothing is known, except that the people used to build huts of branches and foliage ( umbrae, according to Festus, under " Umbrae "), in which they probably feasted, drank, and amused themselves ( Horace Carmina iii. 28. 1, & c .; Tertullian De Spectaculis (" On Celebrations ") 6 ).

Even incomplete, Festus ' lexicon reflects at second hand the enormous intellectual effort that had been made in the Augustan Age to put together information on the traditions of the Roman world, which was already in a state of flux and change.

Collating these fragmentary abridgements, and republishing them with translations, is a project being coordinated at University College London with several objectives in view: to make this mass of information available to researchers in a usable form ; to stimulate debate on Festus and on the Augustan antiquarian tradition on which he drew, and generally to enrich and renew studies on Roman life, on which Festus provides such essential information.

According to Festus, the older meaning of the adjective brutus was " serious " or " grave ", in which case the surname is much the same as Severus.