Amburbia

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An amburbial sacrifice, also known as amburbia or amburbale sacrum, was an ancient Roman religious festival, wherein participants made processions around their city with the beast to be sacrificed.

The word is composed of ambio ("I go around"), or of amb or ambu, an ancient preposition signifying "around", and urbs, "city".

Hence, also, we have amburbiales victimæ, the victims carried along in the procession, and afterwards sacrificed.

Scaliger, in his notes on Festus, maintains the amburbia to be the same as ambarvalia.

[edit] See also

• Ambarvalia

[edit] References

• This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.
• Blount, Thomas. Glossographia, or a dictionary interpreting such hard words...as are now used. 1656.