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lustrum::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | ceremony |
| Derivation | lustrate |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | time period, period, period of time |
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Neither a century nor a lustrum is typically graced with any special moniker.
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The time when the lustrum took place has been calculated.
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As the coincidence, however, was not perfect, a month of 24 days was interposed in every eleventh lustrum.
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These censuses were taken at five-year intervals, thus a lustrum came to refer to the five-year inter-census period.
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The census might take place without the lustrum, and indeed two cases of this kind are recorded, in B.C. 459 and 214.
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In these cases, the lustrum was not performed because of some great calamities that had befallen the republic.
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In 2007 the association celebrated its 9th lustrum.
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As this purification took place only once in five years, the word lustrum was also used to designate the time between two lustra.
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In the earliest period of the republic, the business of the census and the solemnities of the lustrum were performed by the consuls.
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- A period of five years
- A ceremonial purification of the Roman population every five years following the census
- A lustrum (plural lustra) was a term for a five-year period in Ancient Rome.
- Lustrum is a 2009 novel by British author Robert Harris. It is the sequel to Imperium and the middle volume of a trilogy about the life of Cicero.
