Scipio Africanus presumably married his wife Aemilia Tertia by " confarreatio ", because their elder son was Flamen Dialis; yet Scipio's mother Pomponia was a plebeian.
12.
A further requirement was that he be born from parents married through the ritual of " confarreatio ", which was also the form of marriage he himself had to enter.
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Cutting the wedding cake is often turned into a ritual, complete with sharing a symbolic bite of the cake in a rite that harks back to the pagan confarreatio weddings in ancient Rome.
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Furthermore, a " destinatus " for the office of a " flamen maior " needed to be eventually married by " confarreatio " himself, a requirement which Marc Antony was unable to meet at first.
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In Dum�zil's opinion " Farreus " should be understood as related to the rite of the " confarreatio " the most sacred form of marriage, the name of which is due to the spelt cake eaten by the spouses, rather than surmising an agricultural quality of the god : the epithet means the god was the guarantor of the effects of the ceremony, to which the presence of his flamen is necessary and that he can interrupt with a clap of thunder.
