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Diēs Sanʹguinis

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The 24th March, called Belloʹna’s Day, when the Roman votaries of the war-goddess cut themselves and drank the sacrificial blood to propitiate the deity.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Die
Die
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Diego (San)
Diēs Alliensis
Diēs Iræ
Diēs Non
Diēs Sanguinis
Dietrich
Dieu
Difference
Digest (The)
Diggings
Diggory
Digit
Dignitary (A)
Dignus Vindice Nodus (Latin)
Dii Penatēs (Latin)