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Flamen (noun) - In ancient Rome, a designated priest with specific religious duties and responsibilities within the Roman religious system
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- a priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis.
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See also collegium and flamen.
Flamen please let him go.
The leader of her cult was called the flamen carmentalis.
A flamen could also be a member of the Augustales.
He was assigned a minor flamen.
The cut hair and nails of the Flamen Dialis were buried under a lucky tree.
Only a free man was allowed to cut the hair of the flamen dialis.
Flamen also painted a few portraits and produced some designs for the Gobelins Manufactory.
To this ordo senatorius also belonged the pontifex maximus and the flamen dialis.
The role of the flamen Quirinalis in the Larentalia is also significant.
Her priest was called the flamen Pomonalis.
He refers to the Flamen and the Pontificus maximus and the Vestals as examples.
A lone priest of Mars was called a flamen Martialis.
The Flamen Martialis would have led public rites on the days sacred to Mars.
The Vulcan priests were called flamen.
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The position of Flamen Dialis was now vacant.
The type species is Dipsas flamen Leech.
The Flamen Dialis enjoyed many peculiar honours.
Cneius Cornelius was inaugurated flamen of Jupiter.
The Flamen Quirinalis and the Vestals officiated at his rites.
The exact date that Maluginensis became Flamen Dialis is disputed.
The Flamen Quirinalis led public rites on the days sacred to Quirinus.
He was assisted by another priest, known as the flamen curialis.
Pliny the Younger is flamen Divi Augusti priest in the cult of the Emperor.
Portunus, god of keys, doors, and livestock, he was assigned a flamen minor.
It may have signified an ancestor who was a flamen, or perhaps the servant of a flamen.
A fourth flamen maior was dedicated to Julius Caesar as a divinity (divus) of the Roman state.
Caesar may have been granted an active flamen while living ; the evidence is equivocal.
He was flamen dialis, and consul suffectus in AD 10.
Rusticelius Clementianus, flamen at Madaurus.
BC, Flamen Quirinalis and unsuccessful candidate for the consulship in 214 BC.
In ancient Roman religion, the Flamen Dialis was the high priest of Jupiter.
From apex was formed the epithet apicatus, applied to the flamen dialis by Ovid . [ 9 ].
He had his own minor flamen, and a high priest, the Flamen Volturnalis.
As a young man, he was given a priesthood as Flamen Dialis by his father-in-law, Cornelius Cinna.
Caesar 's first flamen was Mark Antony.
Aemilius Regillus, Flamen of Mars, died this year.
