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 443 BC, and from this year down to 294 BC there had, according to Livy (X.47), only been 26 pairs of censors, and only 21 lustra, or general purifications, although if all had been regular, there would have been 30 pairs of censors and 30 lustra. Sometimes the census was not held at all, or at least not by the censors. The census might take place without the lustrum, and indeed two cases of this kind are recorded, in 459 and 214 BC. In these cases, the lustrum was not performed because of some great calamities that had befallen the