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Ludi piscatorii

Ludi piscatorii We know that the fishermen and the divers of the whole bed of the Tiber formed a corporation (Wilmanns, 1737). To them probably refer the ludi piscatorii held each year on the 7th of June across the Tiber by the praetor urbanus (Festus, s.v. Ov. Fast. 6.235-240).

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.