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In ancient Roman religion, ''Regifugium'' or ''Fugalia'' ("King's Flight") was an annual observance that took place every February 24. The Romans themselves offer varying views on the meaning of the day. According to Varro and Ovid, the festival commemorated the flight of the last king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, in 510 BC. Plutarch, however, explains it as the symbolic departure of the priest with the title ''rex sacrorum''. In his ''Fasti'', Ovid offers the longest surviving account of the observance:
Plutarch holds that the ''rex sacrorum'' was a substitute for the former king of Rome here as in various religious rituals. The ''rex'' held no civic or military role, but nevertheless was bound to offer a public sacrifice in the Comitia on this date. The "flight of the king" was the swift exit the proxy king was required to make from that place of public business. It may be that the two versions are to be reconciled by taking the "flight" of the ''rex sacrorum'' as a reenactment of the expulsion of Tarquinius. ==Notes== ==Source== *William Smith, D.C.L., LL.D., ''A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities'' (London, 1875). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Regifugium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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