Note 243 — Chapter III · HOLY DAYS
Reading edition
Festus, De verborum significatione: denicales feriæ colebantur, cum hominis mortui causa familia purgabatur (ed. Müller, p. 70); compare Cicero, De legibus, ii, 22, 55. It was not lawful to bury a corpse on a public holiday, doubtless through fear of polluting the sacredness of the occasion. See Columella, De re rustica, ii, 22, 5.