Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Argei

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

ARGE'I. Certain sites in the city of Rome, twenty-seven in number, with small chapels attached to them (Varro, L. L. v. 45.), consecrated by Numa for the performance of religious rites (Liv. i. 22.), and visited, it would appear, in succession (Ov. Fast. iii. 791. Aul. Gell. x. 16. 4.), upon certain festivals, like the Stazioni of modern Italy.

2. Images or Guy Fawkeses, made of bullrushes, thirty in number, which were annually cast into the Tiber from the Sublician bridge, on the Ides of May, by the pontifices and Vestals; the origin and meaning of which custom are involved in obscurity. Varro, L. L. vii. 44. Ov. Fast. v. 621. Festus. s. v.