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The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic

Note 384 — MENSIS MAIUS.

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Ovid, l. c. ‘oculos exosa viriles.’ Cp. Ars Amat. 3. 637. On this and other points in the cult see R. Peter in Myth. Lex., and Wissowa, l. c. The latter seems to refer most of them to the December rite; but Ovid and Macrobius expressly connect them with the temple. Macr. 1. 12. 25 foll.

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