Definition of Piaculum. Meaning of Piaculum. Synonyms of Piaculum

- contractual (do ut des), a piaculum might be offered as a sort of advance payment; the Arval Brethren, for instance, offered a piaculum before entering their...
- "to clear a clearing." The officiant is instructed to offer a pig as a piaculum, a propitiation or expiatory offering made in advance of the potential...
- sacrilege (piaculum); a piaculum might also be offered as a sort of advance payment; the Arval Brethren, for instance, offered a piaculum before entering...
- intrude on the realm of the gods.: 286  Violations of pietas required a piaculum, expiatory rites.: 286  The Temple of Piety at Rome was solemnly vowed...
- otherwise permitted could be carried out if an expiation were made in advance (piaculum), usually the sacrifice of a puppy. Within the city of Rome, the flamens...
- sacrilege (piaculum); a piaculum might also be offered as a sort of advance payment; the Arval Brethren, for instance, offered a piaculum before entering...
- dismissed. Expiation of prodigies usually involved a special sacrifice (piaculum) and the destruction of the "unnatural" object that had caused divine offence...
- in effect committed perjury, and forfeited his sacramentum as a form of piaculum, an expiatory sacrifice; the winner got his deposit back. The forfeited...
- "functional goddesses" that are otherwise unknown. They were to be invoked for a piaculum, a propitiation conducted in advance of destroying a tree. Their names...
- enforce it were in most instances sanctions of religious, sacral nature, (a piaculum or a sacrificium). However these were not the only sanctions in use: other...