...repaired at the public expense.2 If our interpretation of these customs is right, it was the ghost of his murdered sister whom the Roman hero gave the slip...and it may have been the angry ghosts of slaughtered 1 Livy iii. 28, ix. 6, x. 36 ; Dionysius Halicarnasensis, Antiquit. Roman, iii. 22. 7. The so-called...

...for three similar customs in Rome: the passage under the Tigillnm Sororium and under the iugum—"it may have been the angry ghosts of slaughtered Romans from whom the enemy's soldiers were believed to be delivered" 2 —and the passage through the Porta Triumphalis, which "may...

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...probably in origin a ceremony of purification rather than of degradation. customs is right, it was the ghost of bis murdered sister whom the Roman hero gave...ghosts of slaughtered Romans from whom the enemy's soldiers were believed to be delivered when they marched under the yoke before being dismissed by their...