Note 744 — MENSIS QUINCTILIS.
Reading edition
It is curious that the practice in husbandry called caprificatio, or the introduction of branches of the wild tree among those of the cultivated fig to make it ripen (Plin. N. H. 15. 79; Colum. II. 2) took place in July; and it strikes me as just possible that there may have been a connexion between it and the Nonae Caprotinae.