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PALES , an old See also: Italian goddess of flocks and shepherds
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The festival called Parilia (less correctly Palilia) was celebrated in her honour at See also: Rome and in the country on the 21st of See also: April
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In this festival Pales was invoked to See also: grant
See also: protection and increase to flocks and herds; the shepherds entreated forgiveness for any unintentional profanation of See also: holy places of which their flocks might have been guilty, and leaped three times across bonfires of See also: hay and See also: straw (Ovid, See also: Fasti, iv
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731–805)
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The Parilia was not only a herdsmen's festival, but was regarded as the birthday celebration of Rome, which was supposed to have been founded on the same See also: day
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Pales plays a very sub-See also: ordinate See also: part in the See also: religion of Rome, even the sex of the divinity being uncertain
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A male Pales was sometimes spoken of, corresponding in some respects to See also: Pan; the See also: female Pales was associated with See also: Vesta and Anna Perenna
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