Note 1407 — MENSIS FEBRUARIUS

Ox, sheep and pig were the usual victims; the dog was only offered to Robigus (see on April 25), to the Lares Praestites and to Mana Geneta; the goat only to Bacchus and Aesculapius, foreign deities (Marq. 172). The goat-skin of Juno Sospita is certainly Greek: Lex. s. v. Iuno, 595. The goat was a special Hebrew piaculum (Robertson Smith, 448; cf. 453).