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taurobolia

taurobolia is the plural of taurobolium.

Meaning of taurobolium

Noun

taurobolium (plural taurobolia)

  1. (Ancient-Rome, historical) The ritual slaughter of a bull.
    • The cult of the Magna Mater, borrowing the civic spirit proper to Roman religion, made of the official taurobolium a manifestation of loyalty to the institutions of the Roman Empire.1927, George La Piana, Foreign Groups in Rome During the First Centuries of the Empire, Harvard University Press, page 300

Questions about taurobolia

What is taurobolia the plural of?
Taurobolia is the plural of taurobolium.

Words near taurobolia in the dictionary

  1. taurine
  2. taurines
  3. Taurini
  4. taurinomethyl
  5. Tauris
  6. taurobolia
  7. taurobolic
  8. taurobolium
  9. tauroboly
  10. taurocephalous
  11. taurochenodeoxycholate

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