Note 849 — MENSIS SEXTILIS.
Reading edition
Frazer, G. B. i. 105: cp. Robertson Smith, Religion of the Semites, p. 128 foll. Serv. Georg. 3. 332 ‘Ut omnis quercus Iovi est consecrata, et omnis lucus Dianae.’ (Hor. Od. 1. 21.) The reclaiming of Diana from the woodland to the homestead is curiously illustrated by an inscription from Aricia (Wilmanns, Exempla, 1767) in which she is identified with Vesta.