Note 435 — MENSIS MAIUS.
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Festus, l. c.; Cicero, pro Roscio Amerino, 35. 100. Sexagenarios de ponte was apparently an old saying (cp. ‘depontani,’ Festus, 75); the earliest notice we have of it, which comes from the poet Afranius, seems to connect it with the pons sublicius.