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
Lustrum of 24 days was interposed in every eleventh lustrum. It is highly probable that the recurrence of such a cycle or great year was, from the earliest times, solemnized with sacrifices and purifications, and that King Servius did not introduce them, but merely connected them with his census, and thus set the example for subsequent ages, which however, as we have seen, was not observed with regularity. The last lustrum was solemnized at Rome, in AD 74, in the reign of Vespasian. The word should not be confused with the identically spelled, but differently pronounced, lustrum ( ), a haunt