Talk:sexagenarios de ponte

etymology and meaning

First of all, sorry, but de ponte doesn't mean over bridge, but down from the bridge, or, at the most, from the bridge; about meaning we have two quotes: 1) Cicerone's Pro Roscio Amerino and 2) Festo's De verborum significatu: both report an antique Romans' custom: to throw from bridge in the Tiber sixty-years-old men; and therefore the historical rite: to throw from sublicio bridge some reed puppets Astasie (talk) 09:23, 7 June 2024 (UTC)