Note 897 — MENSIS SEXTILIS.
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Festus, p. 210, s. v. piscatorii ludi (Varro, L. L. 6 20). The latter uses the word ‘animalia,’ and does not mention fish. The fish were apparently sacrificed at the domestic hearth; but it is doubtful whether Volcanus was ever a deity of the hearth-fire (see Schwegler, R. G. i. 714; Wissowa, de Feriis, xlv).