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- ...selves and their merchandise with sacred water in a ceremony at the Capena Gate. When Mercurius became identified with Hermes, he took on the duties of mes6 KB (955 words) - 00:35, 2 January 2014
- ...lves and their merchandise with sacred water in a ceremony at the [[Capena Gate]]. ... Mercuralia, merchants sprinkled water from his sacred well near the Porta Capena on their heads.6 KB (898 words) - 09:55, 28 August 2009
- ...te to [[Hades]], abode of the dead; Festus called it ''ostium Orci'', "the gate of [[Orcus]]". The other was used to make rain; this one may have no direc ...er, the grammarian [[Sextus Pompeius Festus|Festus]] held the cover to the gate of the underworld and the rainmaking stone to be two distinct stones.<ref>S4 KB (594 words) - 17:18, 17 March 2011
- ...selves and their merchandise with sacred water in a ceremony at the Capena Gate. When Mercurius became identified with Hermes, he took on the duties of mes9 KB (1,395 words) - 13:05, 1 April 2009
- ...sidence, or at some place on the boundary of land or city (e. g., the city gate) which was under his protection, or (in later times at least) at a temporar ...rmorea''', "marble altar" known from two inscriptions found near the Porta Capena<ref>CIL 6.9403 = ILS 7713, CIL 6.10020 and IGUR 1342; R p. 21.</ref>23 KB (3,681 words) - 01:57, 7 August 2013