Lexicographical Neighbors of Fetiales
Literary usage of Fetiales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Remnants of Early Latin by Frederic De Forest Allen (1897)
"The fetiales were a public religious collegium who were the guardians of ...
The fetiales were an ancient Italic institution, and existed not in Rome only ..."
2. Etruscan Inscriptions by Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford (1872)
"The fetiales,—a college of priests who acted as guardians of the public faith,
... fetiales' would thus be equivalent to ' Conservators of Faith. ..."
3. The Classical Manual: An Epitome of Ancient Geography, Greek and Roman by James Skerret Shore Baird (1853)
"THE fetiales were a college of priests, instituted by Numa. ... The fetiales
acted as the guardians of the .public faith, and it was their office, ..."
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