AMBURBIUM, in Roman Antiquity, a procession made by the Romans round the city and pomerium, in which they led a victim, and afterwards sacrificed it, in order to avert some calamity that threatened the city. This festival was for the city of Rome what the Ambarvalia was for the fields.
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