Nonae Capratinae
The Nonae Capratinae (in Varro : Caprotinae ) were a festival of the Roman religion that was held on the Nones of Quinctilis (July 7th).
At the festival, the women who made a sacrifice played a role; Slaves enjoyed - similar to the Saturnalia - unusual freedoms. Late etiological accounts by Plutarch and Macrobius explain this with the fact that after the Gauls storm in 387 BC. The Romans were harassed by their Latin neighbors, who demanded the extradition of all Roman girls and women. On the advice of a slave named Philotis , who was probably later given the name Tutula in memory of her brave deed, the Romans sent her and other slaves, disguised as Roman women and girls, to the enemy camp. From there, Philotis signaled from a fig tree (caprificus) from the Romans, who rushed out of the city and overpowered the Latins.
In parts of the tradition, the Nonae Capratinae are associated with the Poplifugia festival on July 5th; Whether the two festivals were identical is disputed in research. The disappearance of Romulus on the palus Caprae ("goat swamp") is mentioned in the tradition as the source of the name.
Apparently only secondary (with Varro and Macrobius) was the festival associated with Iuno Caprotina.
swell
- Varro: De lingua Latina 6, 18
- Plutarch: Romulus 29, 9 ( English translation ). Camillus 33 ( English translation )
- Macrobius, Saturnalia 1, 11, 36-40
literature
- Fritz Graf : Capratinae (Nonae). In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ Markus Sehlmeyer: Poplifugia. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 10, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01480-0 .