Note 1227 — MENSIS IANUARIUS.
Reading edition
These and their later history are the subject of a most exhaustive treatise by Martin Lipenius, in Graevius’ Thesaurus, vol. xii, p. 405. See also Marq. Privatleben, 1. 2, 245. For the sentiment implied in the strenae see Ovid, Fasti, 1. 71 foll. and 175.