[Gutenberg 54519] • Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Excerpt from Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey Through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. 1 of 2

I was made to observe at Rome some vestiges of an ancient custom very proper in those days - it was the parading of the streets by a set of people called Preci, who went some minutes before the Flamen Dialis to bid the inhabitants leave work or play, and attend wholly to the procession; but if ill omens prevented the pageants from passing, or if the occasion of the mow was deemed scarcely worthy its celebration, these Preci stood a chance of being ill-treated by the spectators.

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