Note 1443 — MENSIS FEBRUARIUS
Reading edition
They were also called ‘amiculum Iunonis’ (Fest. 85: cp. Ovid, Fasti, 2. 427 foll.); Juno here, as so often, representing the female principle. Farnell (Cults, i. 100) aptly compares with this the Athenian custom of carrying Athena’s aegis round Athens, and taking it into the houses of married women.