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nudipedalia

nudipedalia · n

A religious procession of persons with bare feet, the barefoot festival

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Where it lives

De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k

What it meant

nūdĭpĕdālĭa — Lewis & Short

nūdĭpĕdālĭa, ĭum, n.nudipes.

I A religious procession of persons with bare feet, the barefoot festival, celebrated in seasons of great drought, to procure a fall of rain: cum stupet caelum et aret annus, nudipedalia denuntiantur, magistratus purpuras ponunt, fasces retro avertunt, precem indigitant, hostiam instaurant, Tert. Jejun. 16; id. Apol. 40; cf. Petr. 44; Sil. 3, 28.—

II A going barefoot: nudipedalia exercere, Hier. in Ep. ad Galat. 4, 8.

In the wild

nudipedalia Tertullian, De ieiunio adversus psychicos 16
nudipedalia Tertullian, Apologeticum 40.14

Where it came from

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