Note 347 — MENSIS APRILIS.
Reading edition
Another point that may strike the reader of Ovid is the wearing of parti-coloured dress on these days (5. 355: cp. Martial, 5. 23)—
Cur tamen ut dantur vestes Cerialibus albae,
Sic haec est cultu versicolore decens?
Flora answers him doubtfully. Was this a practice of comparatively late date? See Friedländer, Sittengeschichte ii. 275.