Meditrinalia
The Meditrinalia were an ancient Roman wine festival that took place on October 11th. On this day, the new must was tasted for the first time after a libation had previously been donated. The new must is mixed with the boiled down must from the previous year. The name of the festival was derived from mederi ("to heal"), as the new wine mixed in this way was thought to have a particularly health-promoting effect and, by combining sacrifices and costs, it was hoped that help with old diseases and a defense against new diseases was hoped for.
According to Varro , the following words were spoken:
- Novum vetus vinum bibo, novo veteri morbo medeor ("I drink new and old wine to be cured of new and old illnesses")
The antiquarian Roman writers probably constructed a healing goddess Meditrina for the name of the festival .
A libation was donated to the Liber at the beginning of the grape harvest, but in the Fasti Amiternini and the Fasti fratrum Arvalium , October 11th is shown as feriae Iovi ("Feast of Iuppiter"), so it is assumed that the Meditrinalia like the other two wine festivals, the Vinalia Priora and the Vinalia Rustica , were dedicated to Iuppiter .
literature
- Franz Bömer : Iuppiter and the Roman wine festivals . In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 90 (1941), p. 30ff ( PDF ).
- Attilio Mastrocinque: Meditrinalia. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , column 1103.
- Rudolf Peter: Meditrina . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 2516 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Attilio Degrassi : Inscriptiones Italiae. Vol. 13, 2. Rome 1963, p. 519.
- ^ Paulus Diaconus , Epitoma Festi 110 L.
- ↑ Varro, De lingua latina 6:21.
- ^ Paulus Diaconus, Epitoma Festi 423 L. Columella , De re rustica 12,18,4.