piaculum

Here the theory is confronted by the holocaust and the piaculum, expiatory sacrifices in which there is no communal eating.

“Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est.”

His journey to Rome in chains might be enough here to explain the language, especially when the style of Ignatius is considered.14.Such were evidently Gnostics, as shown by their rejection of the God of the Jews.15.Piaculum.16.Clement alters the passage slightly; see Is.

Any slip or omission was, in fact, a piaculum, or sacrum commissum—terms of the ius divinum which seem to suggest, if I may use the expression, the obverse side of holiness.

That this was a form of piaculum is clear from the use of the word pihaklu of the victim in the lustratio of the arx of Iguvium, e.g.