Note 1185 — Women’s Sacrifice to the Bona Dea.
Reading edition
The temple was traditionally dated B.C. 497 (Livy, 2. 21); cp. Aust, de Aedibus sacris, p. 4: so too the festival, though both had an older origin (Ambrosch. Stud. 149). The latter was reorganized in Greek fashion in obedience to a Sibylline oracle in B.C. 217 (Livy, 22. 1).