It ended with a chanting Perlustration of the church, led by the priest: this is the so-called "pesatura."
"Old Calabria"
Norman Douglas
All down the centuries we may recognise those four letters-surmounted in imperial times by an eagle-crowning the standard of the Romans, carried far and wide not only through the streets of the city and to the uttermost ends of the earth, but in that religious Perlustration of the ager when the ambarvalia rites were celebrated at the Cluilian Trench which separated Rome from Alba Longa, the site of the combat between the Alban Curatii and the Roman Horatii.
"Rome"
Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker Hope Malleson