Note 1230 — MENSIS IANUARIUS.
Reading edition
Varro, L. L. 6. 25 ‘quotannis is dies concipitur’ (for the right reading of the rest of the passage see Mommsen, C. I. L. 305). Macrobius (1. 16. 6) reckons them as conceptivae, in the fourth century; Philoc. and Silv. may be representing a traditional date for a feast which was iure conceptivus. So Momms. Cp. Gell. 10. 24. 3, where the formula for fixing the date is given; and Cic. in Pis. 4. 8. It was the praetor (urbanus?) who in this case made the announcement.