Sparsiones June 2, 1949 by • bloodless offerings, ceremonial, donatives, gaming pieces, gifts, hidden manna, king's gifts, rex Saturnalius, Roman, Rome, sparsio, sparsiones, symbols, the Great Assembly Year, the New Year, tokens, year-gifts Originally published as an article in Classical Journal 40 (1945): 515-43; CWHN 10:148-194.