Note 884 — MENSIS SEXTILIS.
Reading edition
Suggested by Mommsen, C. I. L. 326, and accepted by Wissowa. Unluckily Columella (r. 6), in alluding to the practice, says nothing of its occurrence in Italy. The alternative explanation was suggested to me by Robertson Smith (Religion of the Semites, 107): see also a note in Müller-Deecke, Etrusker, ii. 100; and below on Terminalia (p. 325).