Roman festivals

Roman festivals were a very important part of Roman religious life during both the Republican and Imperial eras, and one of the primary features of the Roman calendar.

In later literature

 * There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother—he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.
 * Lord Byron, 


 * Let our children laugh, When Italy is free. Meanwhile proclaim A Feast, with three days' offering to the Gods! Load every shrine with tributes of glad hearts, Crown Victory's statue with triumphal wreathes, And scatter flowers about the Capitol; Hymning the praise of Jove that stays the flight. Let all the readers of our annals say Never was such a Roman holiday.
 * John Nichol, Hannibal (1873), V, viii