Transvectio equitum
The Transvectio equitum was an annual parade of the Equites in ancient Rome on the Ides of the month of Quintilis or Iulius (July 15) .
The starting point was traditionally the temple of Virtus and Honos . The parade route led over the Aedes Castoris on the Roman Forum to the Capitol and ended at the Porta Collina on the Quirinal .
The original occasion was the commemoration of the battle at Lake Regillus in the first Latin war , during which the Dioscuri Castor and Pollux are said to have stood by the Romans. The first Transvectio equitum took place in 304 BC. At the instigation of the censor of the year, Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus . The knights were divided into turmae , led by the seviri equitum Romanorum , who parade past the censor, where they were patterned.
Augustus revived the tradition and again combined the Transvectio equitum with the mustering of the young Roman knights. The tradition of the knight parade continued into the 4th century.
swell
- Pseudo- Aurelius Victor , De viris illustribus urbis Romae 32.3
- Livy 9.46.15
literature
- Kurt Latte : Roman religious history. Beck, Munich 1960. 2nd unaltered edition 1967, pp. 173ff.
- Arthur Stein : The Roman knighthood. A contribution to the social and personal history of the Roman Empire. Beck, Munich 1927 (Munich contributions to papyrus research and ancient legal history, 10th issue).
Remarks
- ↑ a b Pseudo- Aurelius Victor , De viris illustribus urbis Romae 32.3.
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus reports of an alternative parade route from the Temple of Mars to the Porta Capena ( Antiquitates Romanae 6:13).
- ↑ Ovid , Tristia 2,89f.