Priesthoods

The more plausible judgment, however, is that we were an expensive irrelevance, not so different from the Mesoamerican priesthoods of earlier centuries.

A patrician's privileges included: Inter-regnum (power of state reverted to the fathers), Auspices (a way to look for the will of the gods), and Priesthoods.

From what may be inferred from many Manichean texts and a few Zoroastrian sources, the adherents of the two religions (or at least their respective priesthoods) despised each other intensely.

Kajava, p. 5. Evidence of her specialist priesthoods is extremely rare.

Plebeians eventually became eligible for all the magistracies and most priesthoods, but the high priest of Jupiter ( Flamen Dialis ) remained the preserve of patricians.

Senatorial legislation to reform the Bacchanalia in 186 BC attempted to control their size, organisation, and priesthoods, under threat of the death penalty.