| Polemates immediately instituted a novennial festival to the god, who seemed to be the patron of the Baotians. |
| In the third and last novennial space, they are to offer up such prayers as are proper for, and allowed to the Prostrate, and thus, are to proceed to the participation of the Holy Eucharist. |
| The Athenians having barbarously murdered Angrogeus, the son of Minos, king of Crete, were obliged by his father to send a novennial, septennial or annual tribute of seven young men. |
| These Thebagenae appear to have been the families of distinction, who supplied the annual or novennial daphnephorus, a youth, selected for beauty and vigour, as became the representative of Apollo. |
| t would seem that the Muses are only associated with Tempe as the attendants of Apollo, in whose honour a novennial procession of youths from Delphi existed in historical times. |
