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CONSUS , an ancient Italian deity, originally a god of agriculture. The time at which his festival was held (after harvest and seed-sowing), the nature of its ceremonies and amusements, his altar at the end of the Circus Maximus always covered with earth except on such occasions, all point to his connexion with the earth. In accordance with this, the name has been derived from condere (= Condius, as the " keeper " of grain or the " hidden " god, whose life-producing influence works in the depths of the earth). Another etymology is from conserere (" sow," cf. Ops Consiva and her festival Opiconsivia). Amongst the ancients (Livy i. 9; Dion
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His festival was celebrated on the 21st of August and the 15th of December. On the former date, the flamen Quirinalis, assisted by the vestals, offered sacrifice, and the puntifices presided at horse and chariot races in the circus . It was a day of puhlic rejoicing; all kinds of rustic amusements took place, amongst them running on ox-hides rubbed with oil (like the Gr. avKoXcaoros). Horses and mules, crowned with garlands, were given rest from work
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draught beasts, took the place of horses. The origin of these games was generally attributed to Romulus
See W. W. Fowler, The Roman Festivals (1899) ; G. Wissowa, Religion and Kultus der Romer (19oz) ; Preller
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