Agonalia, Agonia

or Agonāles. A name derived from the old Latin agonia, a victim, and given to four festivals in the Roman calendar. (1) A sacrifice to Ianus, on the 9th of January.

(2) A sacrifice by the Salii (q.v.) to Mars or Quirinus, on the 17th of March.

(3) A sacrifice to Veiovis (q.v.), on the 21st of May.

(4) A feast called Septimontium, held on the 11th of December, when a victim was offered on each of the seven hills of Rome. See Huschke, Das alte röm. Jahr (1869).