Note 1379 — MENSIS FEBRUARIUS
Reading edition
Fasti, 2. 617 foll. Among the calendars it is only mentioned in those of Philocalus and Silvius, and in the rustic calendars. Valerius Maximus is the next writer after Ovid who mentions it: 2. 1. 8. Cp. C. I. L. vi. 10234. Martial calls it ‘lux propinquorum’ (9. 55, cp. 54). For an interesting conjecture as to the special meaning of carus, see Lattes quoted in De-Marchi, op. cit. 214, note 2.