Packet 7: Tossup 19

A voice that came from one of these places before the Gallic attack on Rome was worshipped as the (15[1])Aius Locutius. Each year, the Arval Brethren gathered in one of these places outside Rome to ensure Dea Dia’s (-5[1])harvest blessing. These places (-5[1])were the centers of worship for the Sabine goddess Feronia (-5[2])and a cult legendarily founded (-5[1])by Virbius at Aricia. (15[1]-5[1])Romans contrasted their own type of this place, the lucus, (15[1])with the horrifying (*) nemeton, where Pliny reported that “magicians” crafted elixirs using golden sickles. (10[1])One of these places near (10[1])Lake Nemi (10[1])was overseen (10[1]-5[1])by (10[1]-5[1])a rex (10[1])devoted (-5[1])to Diana (10[1])Nemorensis; (10[3])that priest-king (10[1])of one of these places would kill his predecessor (10[2])in (10[1])combat, (10[1]-5[1])inspiring the fertility sacrifice hypothesis (10[1])of James Frazer. (-5[1])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[1])in what natural spaces did druids purportedly (10[6])cut (10[2])mistletoe? (10[2])■END■ (10[12])

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