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FLORA

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 528 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FLORA  , in

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Roman
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mythology, goddess of spring-time and flowers, later identified with the Greek Chioris . Her festival at Rome, the Floralia, instituted 238 B.C. by order of the Sibylline books and at first held irregularly, became
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annual after 173 . It lasted six days (
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April 28–May 3), the first day being the anniversary of the foundation of her temple . It included theatrical performances and animal hunts in the circus, and vegetables were distributed to the
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people . The proceedings were characterized by excessive merriment and licentiousness . According to the legend, her worship was instituted by Titus Tatius, and her priest, the flamen Floralis, by Numa . In
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art Flora was represented as a beautiful maiden, bedecked with flowers (Ovid,
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Fasti, v . 183 ff.; Tacitus, Annals, ii . 49) . The
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term " flora is used in botany collectively for the plant-growth of a
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district; similarly "
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fauna is used collectively for the animals .

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