Note 355 — MENSIS APRILIS.
Reading edition
See below, p. 294 (Feriae Sementivae). The meaning of the oscilla was not really known to the later Romans, who freely indulged in conjectures about them. Macrob. 1. 7. 34; Serv. Georg. 2. 389; Paul. 121. My own belief is that, like the bullae of children, they were only one of the many means of averting evil influences.