OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation · J199
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Revise: RomeConfarreatio was a religious ceremony involving prescribed words, ten witnesses and special bread made from far, a type of grain. It was traditionally associated with patrician families and brought the wife into manus. It also mattered for certain priesthoods: eligibility for some priestly offices depended on being born to parents married by confarreatio.
- Revise: Rome
A sacred form of Roman marriage required for the Flamen Dialis and Flaminica Dialis.