In Ancient Rome, the Capitoline Games (Latin: Ludi Capitolini) were annual games, or combats instituted by Camillus, 387 BC, in honor of Jupiter Capitolinus, and in commemoration of the Capitol's not being taken by the Gauls that same year.^[1] The games lasted sixteen days. The Roman Forum was the central area around which ancient Rome developed. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... The name Camillus has multiple uses Ancient Rome In ancient Rome, a camillus (fem. ... Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC 390s BC - 380s BC - 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC Years: 392 BC 391 BC 390 BC 389 BC 388 BC - 387 BC - 386 BC 385 BC... Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus on Capitoline Hill, 6th-1st century BC. The Temple of Jupiter in the ancient Pompeii. ... Piazza del Campidoglio, on the top of Capitoline Hill, with the façade of Palazzo Senatorio. ... Gallia (in English Gaul) is the Latin name for the region of western Europe occupied by present-day France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine river. ...

According to Plutarch, a part of the ceremony involved the public criers putting up the Etrurians for sale by auction. They also took an old man, tying a golden bulla (amulet) around his neck, such as were worn by children, and submitting him to public derision. Festus said that they dressed him in a praetexta, and hung a bull around his neck, not in the manner of a child, but because this was an ornament of the kings of Etruria.^[1] Plutarch Mestrius Plutarchus (c. ... The town Crier in Yate, near Bristol, England A town crier is a person who is employed by a town council to make public announcements in the streets. ... Etruria — usually referred to in Greek and Latin source texts as Tyrrhenia — was an ancient country in Central Italy, located in an area that covered part of what now are Tuscany, Latium and Umbria. ... Bulla can refer to: The English anime name of Bra, a Dragon Ball GT character. ... For the town, see Festus, Missouri. ... Etruria — usually referred to in Greek and Latin source texts as Tyrrhenia — was an ancient country in Central Italy, located in an area that covered part of what now are Tuscany, Latium and Umbria. ...

The original Capitoline games fell into disuse, but new ones were instituted by Domitian in 86, modelled after the Olympic Games in Greece. Every four years, in the early summer, contestants came from several nations to participate in various events. Rewards and crowns were bestowed on the poets, and placed on their heads by the Emperor himself. The feast was not for poets alone, but also for champions, orators, historians, comedians, magicians, etc. These games became so celebrated, that the manner of accounting time by lustres (periods of five years) was changed, and they began to count by Capitoline games, as the Ancient Greeks did by Olympiads.^[1] Domitian bust in the Louvre Titus Flavius Domitianus (24 October 51 – 18 September 96), commonly known as Domitian, was a Roman emperor of the gens Flavia. ... Events Roman Empire Domitian introduces the Capitoline Games. ... For months before the Olympic Games, runners relay the Olympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. ... Lustrum was a sacrifice for expiation and purification offered by one of the censors of Rome in name of the Roman people at the close of the taking of the census, and which took place after a period of five years, so that the name came to denote a period... Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek_speaking world in ancient times. ... An Olympiad is a period of four years, associated with the Olympic Games. ...

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1. ^ ^a b c This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.