Roman festival reflecting the needs of a small pastoral community, involving the sacrifice of goats and youths striking those whom they met with strips of goat skins, held February 15.
Paculla Annia; Campanian (Southern Italy) priestess of Bacchus whose reforms radically altered the Bacchanalian ritual in ancient Rome (fl. c. 188 B.C.).
Plancia Magna; daughter of Roman Senator Varus, wife of Tertullus, benefactress and patron of Perga, the capital of the Roman province of Pamphylia in Asia Minor (1st-2nd century A.D.).
Roman festival where a dog was sacrificed to the god Robigus to prevent the red dust, or mildew, which attacked corn when the ear was beginning to form.
Amaesia Sentia; mentioned by Valerius Maximus as an instance of a female who pleaded her own cause before the praetor; called “Androgyne” for having a man’s spirit with a female body.