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The *Feriae Ancillarum*, or Feast of the Serving Women, was so old that its origin was forgetten. At the fistival, booths made of fig tree branches were set up on the outskirts of Rome. The *ancilliae*, or slave women, dressed in their best, attacked young men of free birth, beating them and engaging in ritualized battles with boughs from the fig tree.
📕 Bernstein, Frances, _Classical Living: Reconnecting with the Rituals of Ancient Rome_. HarperCollins, 2000. pg. 135
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