Note 952 — MENSIS SEPTEMBER.
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I may relegate to a footnote the further conjecture that the original deity of the epulum was Vesta. We know that this Sept. 13 was one of the three days on which the Vestals prepared the mola salsa (Serv. Ecl. 8. 32). We cannot connect this mola salsa with the cult of Jupiter on this day, for the Vestals have no direct connexion with that cult at any period of the year; but it is possible that it was a survival from the time when the common meal took place in the Regia.