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flamen dialis
In ancient Roman religion, the Flamen Dialis was the high priest of Jupiter. There were 15 ''flamines'', of which three were ''flamines maiores'', serving the three gods of the Archaic Triad. According to tradition the ''flamines'' were forbidden to touch metal, ride a horse, or see a corpse.
The office of Flamen Dialis, and the offices of the other ''flamines maiores'', were traditionally said to have been created by Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome, although Numa himself performed many of the rites of the Flamen Dialis.〔Livy, ''Ab urbe condita'', 1:20〕
==Privileges and honors==
The Flamen Dialis enjoyed many peculiar honours. When a vacancy occurred, three persons of patrician descent, whose parents had been married according to the ceremonies of confarreatio (the strictest form of Roman marriage), were nominated by the Comitia, one of whom was selected (''captus''), and consecrated (''inaugurabatur'') by the Pontifex Maximus.〔Tacitus Ann. iv.16; Liv. xxvii.8〕 From that time forward he was emancipated from the control of his father, and became ''sui juris''.〔Gaius, i.130; Ulpian, Frag. x.5; Tac. Ann. iv.16〕 He alone of all priests wore the apex,〔Varro, ap. Gell. x.15〕 he had a right to a lictor,〔Plutarch Q. R. p119, ed. Reiske〕 to the ''toga praetexta'', the ''Sella Curulis'', and to a seat in the Roman senate in virtue of his office. This last privilege, after having been suffered to fall into disuse for a long period, was asserted by C. Valerius Flaccus (209 BC), the claim allowed however, says Livy, more in deference to his high personal character than from a conviction of the justice of the demand.〔Liv. xxvii.8; cf. i.20〕 The Rex Sacrificulus or Rex Sacrorum alone was entitled to recline above him at a banquet; if one in bonds took refuge in his house, the chains were immediately struck off and conveyed through the ''impluvium'' to the roof, and thence cast down into the street:〔Aul. Gell. x.15〕 if a criminal on his way to punishment met him, and fell suppliant at his feet, he was respited for that day,〔Aul. Gell. x.15; Plut. Q. R. p166〕 similar right of sanctuary attached to the persons and dwellings of the papal cardinals.
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