Note 178 — MENSIS MARTIUS.
Reading edition
The note is thus completed by Mommsen from Varro, L. L. 6. 31 ‘Dies qui vocatur sic, Quando Rex Comitiavit Fas, is dictus ab eo quod eo die rex sacrificulus itat [we should probably read litat] ad comitium, ad quod tempus est nefas, ab eo fas’ (see Marq. 323, note 8). The MS. has ‘dicat ad comitium.’ If we adopt litat with Hirschfeld and Jordan, we are not on that account committed to the belief corrected in Praen., that it was on this day and May 24 that the Rex fled after sacrificing in comitio (see Hartmann, Röm. Kal. 162 foll.). The question will be discussed under Feb. 24.