Weddings Flashcards
0
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Flammeum
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“Saffron” colored vail
1
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Tunica recta
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White wedding dress
2
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Sponsalia
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Engagement
3
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Dos
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Dowry
4
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“Ubi tu gaius ego Gaia”
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What the bride says at the altar. “Where you are, my husband, I am”
5
Q
Night before the wedding, a girl would…
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Dedicate her bulla to the lares
6
Q
Pronuba
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Matron of honor
7
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Bad luck to marry on
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The kalends, nones, ides (and the day after) of any month; all of May and half of June were unlucky days, also unlucky, the days the lower world was supposed to open- August 2, October 5, November 8
8
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Usus
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Common law marriage
9
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Coemptio
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Fictious sale of the bride
10
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Confarreatio
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Upper class marriage ceremony
11
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Deductio
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Procession of wedding party to forum
