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- noun Plural form of
sacrarium .
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Examples
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Hence in Rome as in Egypt the temples of Isis (Inachidos limina, Isiacæ sacraria Lunæ) were centres of sodomy, and the religious practice was adopted by the grand priestly castes from Mesopotamia to Mexico and Peru.
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VI, 489: "Isiacae sacraria lenae"; cf. Friedländer,
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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So previously Cæcilius, Minuc. ix: “Per universum orbem sacraria ista taeterrima impiae coitionis adolescunt” (“All over the world the utterly foul rites of that impious union are flourishing apace”).
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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* Per universum orbem sacraria ista taeterrima impiae coitionis adolescunt: [1706] 1
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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Apol. xxxv., “publici hostes”; xxxvii., “hostes maluistis vocare generis humani Christianos” (you prefer to call Christians the enemies of the human race); Minuc., x., “pravae religionis obscuritas”; viii., “homines deploratae, inlicitae ac desperatae factionis” (reprobate characters, belonging to an unlawful and desperate faction); “plebs profanae coniurationis”; ix., “sacraria taeterrima impiae citionis” (abominable shrines of an impious assembly); “eruenda et execranda consensio” (a confederacy to be rooted out and detested).
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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The extracts seem to be from a record of directions for the passage of a procession round the _sacella_ (or _sacraria_, Varro v. 48).
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Hence in Rome as in Egypt the temples of Isis (Inachidos limina, Isiacæ sacraria Lunæ) were centres of sodomy, and the religious practice was adopted by the grand priestly castes from
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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