festival
Liberalia
also: Liberalibus
The festival of Liber (Bacchus) held on 17 March, on which Roman boys traditionally assumed the toga virilis.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 6.1 §12 investing with the plain toga at the Liberalia
The toga virilis (plain white toga of manhood) was assumed by a boy at a ceremony customarily held on the Liberalia, the festival of Liber Pater on 17 March, marking his coming of age.
- Ad Atticum 14.10 §1 You blame the Liberalia
The festival of Liber, 17 March 44, when the amnesty meeting in the Temple of Tellus confirmed Caesar's acts; Atticus had evidently faulted the decisions taken that day.
- Ad Atticum 14.14 §2 the Liberalia
The festival of Liber (17 March); the Senate met that day in 44 BC, two days after the assassination, the occasion of the strained debate Cicero recalls.
- Ad Familiares 12.25 §1 On the Liberalia
The Liberalia, festival of Liber (Bacchus) on 17 March, the day on which Roman boys traditionally took the toga virilis; here simply a calendar date.