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Episode CIX - Saturnalia

Emperors of Rome

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The Last Day of the Saturnalia

On saturnalia morning, one of the traditional gifts is candles. A candle would have been quite an expensive gift back then and veryit extremely useful. Small figurines called sigula were made ly for the Sigularia - last day of festival. One of marshall's poems leads us to er think that sometimes the presents weren't all they might have been.

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