Note 726 — MENSIS QUINCTILIS.
Reading edition
The idea of the scapegoat was certainly not unknown in Italy; Bücheler quotes Serv. (Aen. 2. 140) ‘Ludos Taureos a Sabinis propter pestilentiam institutos dicunt, ut lues publica in has hostias verteretur.’ See on the Regifugium, below, p. 328.