| 单词 | capitoline games |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCapitoline games Capitoline games n. [after classical Latin lūdī Capitōlīnī] games held in ancient Rome in honour of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, to celebrate the dedication of his temple on the Capitoline hill.The Capitoline games, which may date from the 6th cent. b.c., were reinstituted after a period of neglect by Domitian in 86 a.d., and held every four years until their abolition in the 4th cent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > series of, as public spectacle > in ancient world > specific Olympiada1456 Nemean games1559 Panathenaea1578 Pythian games1579 Olympian Gamesa1586 Olympic Games1597 Isthmian games1603 Pythic games1603 Capitoline games1609 Olympics1621 Panathenaics1678 Nemean festival1844 1609 P. Holland Chronol. sig. Ciijv in tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. Pupienus Maximus, and Balbinus, were at Rome, by the Prætorian souldiers killed, in the time of the Capitoline Games. 1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 6 In the time of this Emperor [sc. Constantine]..the Capitoline games were abolished. 1860 Rep. Supreme Court Illinois 23 494 Such were the Olympic and Nemean games among the Greeks..and Apollinarian and Capitoline games among the Romans. 2006 H. I. Flower Art of Forgetting ii. ix. 267 His [sc. Pliny the Younger's] call for the abolition of the similar Capitoline games in Rome is an attack on Domitian's legacy. < as lemmas |
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