patrimi et matrimi

(ἀμφιθαλεῖς). Children whose parents were both alive (Festus, s. h. v.); though the name is also applied to children whose parents had been married by the ceremony called confarreatio, and were still alive ( Serv. ad Verg. Georg. i. 32). For the religious functions, at which the services of patrimi et matrimi were required, see Arvales; camillus; matrimonium.