Salvete, quicumque legant -
On Friday, A.d.XVII of the Kalends of February (1/16/09), comes the festival of my favorite Roman Goddess, CONCORDIA ipsa: Ante diem XVII Kal Feb C: Comitialis - Comitia yes; Courts yes.
From the SVR Calendar: - Concordia, goddess of harmonious relations.
Notandum: At Nova Roma, there is an Aedes Concordiae put up by the NR Sacerdos Concordiae, Cn. Cornelius Lentulus - who is also one of our esteemed dual citizens. The link is:
http://novaroma.org/nr/Aedes_Concordiae_Populi_Novi_Romani_%28Nova_Roma%29 Atque notandulum: Where was Concordia worshipped? Wikipedia gives these five historic temples or shrines:
- The oldest Temple of Concord, built in 367 BC by Marcus Furius Camillus, stood on the Roman Forum.
- [The other] temples and shrines in Rome dedicated to Concord were largely geographically related to the main temple, and included (in date order):
- A bronze shrine (
aedicula) of Concord erected by the aedile Gnaeus Flavius in 304 BC "in Graecostasi" and "in area Volcani" (placing it on the Graecostasis, close to the main temple of Concord). He vowed it in the hope of reconciling the nobility who had been outraged by his publication of the calendar, but the Senate would vote no money for its construction and this thus [it] had to be financed out of the fines of condemned usurers (Liv. IX.46; Plin. NH XXXIII.19; Jord. I.2.339). It must have been destroyed when the main temple was enlarged by Opimius in 121 B.C.
- One built on the
Arx (probably on the east side, overlook[ing] the main temple of Concord below). [The
Arx here was the northern hump of the Capitoline Hill, where an arx or citadel had once stood. {Wikipedia}] It was probably vowed by the praetor Lucius Manlius in 218 BC after quelling a mutiny among his troops in Cisalpine Gaul (Liv. XXII.33.7; cf. XXVI.23.4), with building work commencing in 217 and dedication occurring on 5 February 216 (Liv. XXIII.21.7; Hemerol. Praen. ad Non. Feb., Concordiae in Arce;1 CIL I2 p233, 309; p138Fast. Ant. ap. NS 1921, 86, Concordiae in Capitolio; Hermes 1875, 288; Jord. I.2.112).
- A temple to Concordia Nova, marking the end Julius Caesar had brought to civil war. It was voted by the Senate in 44 B.C. (Cass. Dio XLIV.4) but was possibly never built.
- A temple built by Livia according to Ovid's Fastes VI.637‑638 ("te quoque magnifica, Concordia, dedicat aede Livia quam caro praestitit ipsa viro" - the only literary reference to this temple). The description of the Porticus Liviae follows immediately, and it is probable therefore that the temple was close to or within the Porticus, but the small rectangular structure marked on the Marble Plan (frg. 10) can hardly have been a temple deserving of the epithet "magnifica" (HJ 316).
Nor should we forget Dies Saturnis, qui Diem Veneralis sequitur: Ante diem XVI Kal Feb C: Comitialis - Comitia yes; Courts yes.
From the SVR Calendar: -
Felicitas, goddess of happiness.
- Marriage of Augustus and Livia, 38 BCE.
- Dedication of the
Ara Numinis Augusti, 9CE.
Valete bene novum per annum.