Senatus consultum de funere censorio L. Equiti Cincinnati Auguris (Nova Roma)

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I. It was with great sadness that the Nova Roman Senate learned of the death of a vir consulars et censorius L. Equitius Cincinnatus Augur, former senator and former pontifex, flamen Martialis and augur of Nova Roma, one of the founding citizens of Nova Roma, who joined our citizenry on the first day of Nova Roma. He was integral to the birth and founding years of Nova Roma, and very sadly we only learned about his passing after three years of silence, because he withdraw from all publicity from Nova Roma. The Republic is in grief, and the Senate is mourning the loss of its former consul and censor, a founding citizen. All members of the Senate extend their sincere condolences to the family and friends of L. Equitius Cincinnatus Augur, and to all citizens who lost their former head of state and augur. His ascension to our ancestors shall be followed by our prayers, and he shall remain a patron spirit of Nova Roma forever.

II. In order to honor the memory of the late illustrious former censor, consul, praetor, pontifex, augur and flamen Martialis L. Equitius Cincinnatus Augur, and to express gratitude for his contributions to Nova Roma, and to pay homage to his greatness and importance for Nova Roman history, the Senate is hereby awarding and declaring a funus censorium, censorial state funeral to the vir censorius et consularus L. Equitius Cincinnatus Augur, as it is appropriate. Further, the Senate also authorizes a donation of an unspecified amount of money aiding costs of his funeral in the name of the Nova Roman People, the Quirites. This unspecified donation shall count as if it were given from the Treasury of Nova Roma, but the funds shall be raised by the treasury quaestors, and handled and spent under the joint authority of the consuls and the treasury quaestors, helping the heirs to conduct the funeral ceremonies. Recognizing that the actual funeral arranged by the family has been already held in April, Q. Arrio (III) A. Tullia cos. (April, 2021), this funus censorium serves as our separate funerary tribute but also supports the actual funeral financially.

III. The funus censorium of L. Equitius Cincinnatus Augur shall take place in a form of a funerary ritual and sacrifice conducted by one or both of the consuls, based on their agreement. The volunteering consul has the usual authorization to request one of the pontifices to perform the ritual in his place.

IV. The funus censorium ritual shall take place on the date appointed by the volunteering consul, and published in a consular edict on the funus censorium of L. Equitius. Before issuing the edict, the consul shall obtain an approval for the chosen day from a pontifex and an augur because of the calendrical complications of Roman religion. If the consul chooses to perform the ritual through the person of a pontifex, he has to arrange the date with the officiating pontifex before publishing the edict.

V. The Senate, to further honor the memory of L. Equitius Cincinnatus Augur, hereby officially declares a state mourning for the funeral of L. Equitius Cincinnatus Augur, which shall take place beginning from the day which precedes the funus censorium ritual, and shall last three days.

VI. These three days are declared Dies Nefasti Publici (NP), and, according to the Decretum Pontificum de Diebus III.A., no official state business, no judicial procedure, no comitia shall be held, no edicts shall be issued on these days. This may coincide with festivals and ludi, in which case they shall proceed alongside the state mourning, in a more modest, reduced form, and L. Equitius Cincinnatus Augur’s transition to the Manes shall be remembered in central position within the sacrifices and prayers of the festival.

VII. During this state mourning period, the main page of the Nova Roma website shall show nothing else but a tribute to L. Equitius Cincinnatus Augur, his mourning portrait, black flags and similar symbols of grief, and other main portal pages of the website shall contain a black flag and reference to the mourning for L. Equitius.

VIII. On each day of the state mourning period, the consuls shall take care that there be a daily public message on the official fora of Nova Roma calling the citizens' attention to the mourning and asking for prayers for L. Equitius Cincinnatus Augur.

IX. The Senate also instructs all aediles (curule and plebeian) collegially as a body to hold public funerary games in honor and in memory of L. Equitius Cincinnatus Augur no later than within one month after the funus censorium. The memorial funerary games shall be called Ludi Equitii (Equitian Games) and shall include some form of munera gladiatoria and a biography contest about the life and Roman activities of L. Equitius. The rest of the programs, including the length of the games, is at the discretion of the curule and plebeian aediles, but they shall not exceed 5 days.