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flam·i·nes

 (flăm′ə-nēz′)
n.
A plural of flamen.
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Ello se ha cimentado tambien en la ausencia de monedas de Colonia Patricia, capital de Baetica, con imagenes de monumentos de culto imperial, la cronologia de los primeros flamines provinciales (1) y las concomitancias observadas entre los honores recibidos por dichos sacerdotes y los recogidos en la Lex de flamonio provinciae Narbonensis (CIL XII, 6038) (2).
En el libro i de la obra de LELIO FELIX a QUINTO MUCIO, el dice que LABEON escribe que los comitia calata son los realizados en presencia del Colegio de los Pontifices, para instaurar un rey o los flamines (GEL.
Ces liens sont plus evidents dans le cas de deux personnages qui sont devenus flamines, c'est-a-dire qu'ils appartenaient a l'elite de leur cite et qu'ils etaient aises (nos.
(Although he gives due credit to Caroline Brett for the initial transcription and translation, her work was much revised by Carley himself.) The text and translation (en face) cover a further 815 pages, with 593 entries, beginning in obscurity with block entries for the Druids, Bards, Vates and Flamines, thereafter dealing with individual famous men, and ending with the similarly obscure (to me) Robert Widow.
He explains the division between laity and ecclesiastics in terms of a distinction already present in pagan antiquity: In the rite of the temples there were archiflamines, flamines, priests of both sexes.