Suffimenta, donatives of sulphur, bitumen, and other inflammable and combustible substances for the composition of torches, which were distributed among the people a few days before the celebration of the secular games, and with which they performed their part in the expiatory and lustral ceremonies peculiar to those occasions. Pitiscus takes notice of these suffimenta, which he obverses were wont to be given in the way of atonement and purification, either by the emperors themselves, or by the consuls and decemvirs when sacrificing at Rome before the temples of Apollo Pallatinus and Jupiter Capitolinus. Bellori states that the suffimenta included frankincense and other kinds of perfume used by the Romans in their public lustrations.