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Adonia

Adonia · n

the festival of Adonis

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ădōnĭa — Lewis & Short

ădōnĭa, ōrum, n., ta\ *)adw/nia,

I the festival of Adonis. It returned annually in June, about the time of the summer solstice, and was celebrated (even in Rome; cf. Manso, Essays on Myth.) with alternate lamentations and exultations, on account of the death of Adonis, Amm. 22, 9. This festival was a symbol of the dying and reviving again of nature; cf. Hier. ad Ez. 8; Creuz. Symb. 2, 86; Böttig. Sab. 1, 261 sq.

In the wild

Adonium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.10.p5
Adonium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.21.p44

Where it came from

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