Regifugium
Sign in to saveThe Regifugium ("Flight of the King") or Fugalia ("Festival of the Flight") was an annual religious festival that took place in ancient Rome every February 24 ().
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The Regifugium ("Flight of the King") or Fugalia ("Festival of the Flight") was an annual religious festival that took place in ancient Rome every February 24 ().
==History== Varro and Ovid traced the observance to the flight of the last king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, in In his Fasti, Ovid offers the longest surviving account of the observance:
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