Note 383 — MENSIS MAIUS.
Reading edition
See below, under Dec. 3. There can be hardly a doubt that this December rite was the one famous for the sacrilegium of Clodius in 62 B.C., though Prof. Beesly rashly assumed the contrary in his essay on Clodius (Catiline, Clodius, and Tiberius, p. 45 note). Plutarch, Cic. 19 and 20; Dio Cass. 37. 35.