festival
Parilia
also: Palilia
21 April, the festival of Pales, pastoral goddess; the day Romans celebrated the founding of the city.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 2.8 §2 at the Parilia [21 April]
The Parilia (or Palilia), the rustic festival of Pales on 21 April, also celebrated as the traditional birthday of Rome. The bracketed date is editorial, supplied for the reader.
- Ad Atticum 4.10 §2 Parilia
21 April, the festival of Pales, the pastoral goddess; the day Romans celebrated the founding of the city.
- Ad Atticum 14.14 §1 the Parilia
The rustic festival of Pales (21 April), also Rome's birthday; Cicero is needling Atticus over the news that his nephew young Quintus was crowned (publicly honoured) at the celebration in Antony's company.
- Philippica XIV §14 on the Parilia --- which day is today --- I would come down to the Forum with the fasces
The Parilia (21 April), the traditional birthday of Rome, was the day of the speech. The fasces were the bundled rods symbolizing magisterial power; the rumour falsely cast Cicero as aiming at tyranny on Rome's own birthday.