Glossary of ancient Roman religion may have had a sacrificial element. The "wolf priests", organized into two colleges and later three, who participated in the Lupercalia. The most famous "Lupercus" was Mark Antony. A ritual of purification which was held every five years under the jurisdiction of censors in Rome. Its original meaning was purifying by washing in water (Lat. "lustrum" from verb "luo", "I wash in water"). The time elapsing between two subsequent lustrations being of five years the term "lustrum" took up the meaning of a period of five year. "Manubia" is a technical term of the Etruscan discipline, and refers to the
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? dancing on a needle's point occurs in an expository work by the English divine, William Sclater (1575-1626). In "An exposition with notes vpon the first Epistle to the Thessalonians" (1619), Sclater claimed that scholastic philosophers occupied themselves with such pointless questions as whether angels "did occupie a place; and so, whether many might be in one place at one time; and how many might sit on a Needles point; and six hundred such like needlesse points." Harrison proposes that the reason an English writer first introduced the "needle’s point" into a critique of medieval angelology is that it makes for