Note 1440 — MENSIS FEBRUARIUS
Reading edition
Plut. Rom. 21 and Caes. 61; Ovid, Fasti, 2. 425 foll.; Paul. 57; Liv. fragm. 12 (Madvig); Serv. Aen. 8. 343. All these passages make it clear that the object was to procure fertility in women. Nic. Damasc., Vita Caesaris 21, does not specify women (cp. Dion. Hal. 1. 80).