Quindecimviri sacris faciundis

Quindecimviri sacris faciundis

Priesthoods of
ancient Rome

Marcus Aurelius]sacrificing
Flamen (250-260 AD)

Major colleges

Pontifices · Augures ·
Vestales · Flamines ·
Septemviri epulonum ·
Quindecimviri sacris faciundis

Other colleges
or sodalities

Fetiales · Fratres Arvales ·
Salii · Titii · Luperci ·
Sodales Augustales

Priests

Pontifex Maximus · Rex Sacrorum ·
Flamen Dialis · Flamen Martialis ·
Flamen Quirinalis ·
Rex Nemorensis · Curio maximus

Priestesses

Virgo Vestalis Maxima ·
Flaminica Dialis · Regina sacrorum

Related topics

Religion in ancient Rome
Imperial cult
Glossary of ancient Roman religion
Gallo-Roman religion
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In ancient Rome, the quindecimviri sacris faciundis were the fifteen (quindecim) members of a college (collegium) with priestly duties. Most notably they guarded the Sibylline Books, scriptures which they consulted and interpreted at the request of the Senate. This collegium also oversaw the worship of any foreign gods which were introduced to Rome.

Originally these duties had been performed by duumviri (or duoviri), two men of patrician status. Their number was increased to ten by a Licinio-Sextian law in 367 BCE, which also stipulated that half of these priests were to be plebeian. During the Middle Republic, members of the college were admitted through cooption. At some point in the 3rd century BC, several priesthoods, probably including the quindecimviri, began to be elected through the voting tribes.[1]

References

  1. ^ Andrew Lintott, The Constitution of the Roman Republic (Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 183–184 online.

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