Note 948 — CONCLUSION
Reading edition
L. Friedländer, Roman Life and Manners under the Early Empire, London, 1908, ii, 11 sq.; W. W. Fowler, Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero, New York, 1909, pp. 287 sqq. Though the ancients were careful to distinguish the feriæ from the ludi (compare Gellius, Noctes Atticæ, ii, 24, 11: Diebus ludorum et feriis quibusdam), yet in late republican and imperial times the joyous aspects of the feriæ had become so prominent that nearly all of them were converted into ludi.