nudipedalia
nūdĭpĕdālĭa, ĭum, n. [nudipes].
- A religious procession of persons with bare feet, the barefoot festival, celebrated in seasons of great drought, to procure a fall of rain: cum stupet caelum et aret annus, nudipedalia denuntiantur, magistratus purpuras ponunt, fasces retro avertunt, precem indigitant, hostiam instaurant, Tert. Jejun. 16; id. Apol. 40; cf. Petr. 44, 18; Sil. 3, 28.—
- II A going barefoot: nudipedalia exercere, Hier. in Ep. ad Galat. 4, 8.
nūdipedālia, ium, n. (nudipes), I) ein religiöser Umzug mit nackten Füßen, bei großer Dürre gehalten, um Regen zu erflehen, das Barfüßerfest, Tert. de ieiun. 16; apol. 40; vgl. (über die Sache) Petron. 44 extr. Sil. 3, 28. – II) das Barfußgehen, Hieron. in epist. ad Gal. 4, 8. Hieron. in Augustin. epist. 75, 10.
~ia, -e, i. nuditas
nūdĭpĕdālĭa, ĭum, n. (nudus, pes), procession que lʼon faisait pieds nus : Tert. Jejun. 16 ; Sil. 3, 28 || marche pieds nus : Hier. Gal. 2, 4, 8.
Nudo pede deambulatio Judæorum.
Quo referendum id quod Josephus narrat lib. 2. de Bello Judaico cap. 15. ubi de Berenice :Observant ubi festa Mero pede sabbata Reges.
Venerat Hierosolymam, ut vota Deo solveret. His enim, qui morbo vel aliis necessitatibus implicantur, mos est orare per triginta dies, antequam immolent hostias : abstinere quoque vino et capillos radere. Quem morem Berenice Regina illis exercens diebus, NudipesS. Hieronymus lib. 3. in Jovinianum :etiam ante tribunal stetit, deprecans Florum, etc.
Multa compellitur Apostolus velle, quæ non vult. Circumcidit Timotheum, rasit in se calvitium, Nudipedalia exercuit et totondit Cenchris.Adde Tertullianum de Jejunio cap. 16. et in Apolog. cap. 40.
Aquilicia Jovi immolatis, Nudipedalia populo denuntiatis, etc.Joannes Laudensis, in Vita sancti Petri Damiani Cardinalis cap. 3. num. 16 :
Nudipedalia passim per eremum cunctis temporibus exercebant.Guibertus in Historia Hierosolym. lib. 7. cap. 6 :
Processiones agendo, Sanctorum nomina flebiliter inclamando, Nudipedalia exercendo, lherusalem circumeunt.De Nudipedalibus vide Ludovicum
de la Cerdaad Virgilium.
NUDIPEDALIA
NUDIPEDA´LIAThis name was given to a procession of barefooted matrons, as an obsecratio, in time of great drought, cum stupet coelum et aret annus (Tertull. de Jejun. 16; Apol. 40; cf. Petron. Sat. 44). The magistrates laid aside their insignia, the fasces were reversed, and a sacrifice was offered at the temple of Jupiter, the pontifices bearing at the head of the procession a sacred stone called the lapis Manalis, from the temple of Mars outside the Porta Capena. (Non. p. 547; Fest. pp. 2, 128; Marquardt, Staatsverw. 3.261.)
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