Lustratio

Romans sacrificing a pig, a sheep, and a bull during a suovetaurilia

Lustratio was an ancient Greek and ancient Roman purification ritual.[1][2] It included a procession and in some circumstances the sacrifice of a pig (sus), a ram (ovis), and a bull (taurus) (suovetaurilia).[3] The name is the source of English "lustration" (a purification).

  1. ^ Heitland p. 224
  2. ^ Leo 2019, p. 229.
  3. ^ Burriss 1927, p. 28.

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