sacrifices

• who were the pontifics

  the people who were in charge of religious happenings, the pontifex maximus was the head
• who were the augurs

  people who read the flight of birds, behavious of animals, or direction of thunder to work out the will of the gods
• who were the vestal virgins


  priestesses of the goddess vesta, they lived in the house of vestals which was located in the roman forum