"Secular games" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... caricature; the misereres, or folding scats of the choir, for that of the wood-carver. It is impossible to conceive anything more droll than many of the scenes depicted on these ancient benches. Emblematic pictures of the months, secular games of all kinds, or illustrations of popular legends, frequently appeared; but as frequently satirical and grotesque scenes, often bordering on positive indelicacy; and occasionally satires on the clerical character, which can be only understood ...
— Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places • Frederick William Fairholt
... made himself emperor, celebrated, upon his arrival in Rome, the secular games, in the year 247 of the Christian era—that being the completion of a thousand years from the foundation of Rome. But Nemesis was already on his steps. An insurrection had broken out amongst the legions stationed in Moesia; and they had raised ...
— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey
... this carnival of the Aztecs to the great secular festival of the Romans or ancient Etruscans, which (as Suetonius remarked) "few alive had witnessed before, or could expect to witness again." The ludi saeculares or secular games of Rome were held only at very long intervals and lasted for three days ...
— The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West • Robert E. Anderson |
