Note 725 — CLXXXI (F VII, 2)
Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation
The intercalary month was inserted between the 23rd and 24th of February. Whether it was to be inserted or not depended on the pontifices, who kept their secret jealously. If it is inserted, Cicero will be kept all the longer in town with senatorial and legal business, and so be prevented from seeing Marius, who lived near his Pompeian villa.