Note 1469 — MENSIS FEBRUARIUS
Reading edition
This must be a son of the family. We have, therefore, in this charming picture the predecessors of the Rex, the Regina sacrorum, the flamines, and the Vestal Virgins.
Stat puer et manibus lata canistra tenet.
Inde ubi ter fruges medios immisit in ignes,
Porrigit incisos filia parva favos.
De-Marchi, p. 231, gives a cut of a painting at Herculaneum which may represent a scene of this kind.