and the Feralia, or feast of the dead.  Februus was an old
        Etrurian god of the under-world.  Also, the Charistia, a family
        festival for putting an end to quarrels among relations.
  23.  Feast of Terminus, god of boundaries.  Boundary-stones anointed
        and crowned.

March.

   1.  Feast of Mars.  Also, the Matronalia.  The Salii, priests
        of Mars, go their rounds, singing old hymns.
   6.  Feast of Vesta.
   7.  Feast of Vejovis or Vedius, i.e. the boy Jupiter.
  14. Equiria, or horse-races in honor of Mars.
  15.  Feast of Anna-Perenna, goddess of health.
  17. Liberalia, Feast of Bacchus.  Young men invested with the
        Toga-Virilis on this day.
  19 to 23.  Feast of Minerva, for five days.  Offerings made to her
        by all mechanics, artists, and scholars.

April.

   1.  Feast of Venus, to whom the month is sacred.
   4. Megalesia.  Feast of Cybele and Altys.  It lasted six days, and
        was the Roman analogue of the feast of Ceres in Greece and of Isis
        in Egypt.
  12. Cerealia.  Feast of Ceres.  Games in the circus.
  15. Fordicicia.  Feast of cows.
  21. Palililia.  Feast of Pales, and of the founding of Rome.
  23. Vinalia.  Feast of new wine.
  25. Robigalia.  Feast of the goddess of blight, Robigo.
  28. Floralia.  Feast of the goddess Flora; very licentious.

May.

   1.  Feast of the Bona Dea, the good goddess; otherwise Maia, Ops,
        Tellus, or the Earth.  This was the feast held by women secretly in
        the house of the pontiff.
   9. Lemuralia.  Feast of the departed spirits or ghosts.
  12.  Games to Mars.
  23. Tubilustria, to consecrate wind instruments.

June.

   1.  Feast of Carna, goddess of the internal organs of the body,
        and of Juno Moneta.
   4.  Feast of Bellona.
   5.  Feast of Deus Fidius.
   7 to 15.  Feast of Vesta.
  19. Matralia.  Feast of Mater Matuta.

Other lesser festivals in this month to Summanus, Fortuna, Fortis, Jupiter Stator, etc.

July.

   1.  Day devoted to changing residences, like the 1st of May in New York.
   4. Fortuna Muliebris.
   5. Populifuga.  In memory of the people’s flight, on some
        occasion, afterward forgotten.
   7.  Feast of Juno Caprotina.
  15.  Feast of Castor and Pollux.

Other festivals in this month were the Lucaria, Neptunalia, and Furinalia.

August.

   1.  Games to Mars.
  17.  Feast of the god Portumnus.
  18. Consualia, feast of Consus.  Rape of the Sabines.
  23. Vulcanalia, to avert fires.
  25. Opeconsivia.  Feast of Ops Consiva.