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.

_September_.

The chief feasts in this month were the games (_Ludi Magni_ or _Romani_)
in honor of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva.

_October_.

13. _Fontinalia_. Feast of fountains, when the springs were strewed
with flowers.
15. Sacrifice of a horse to _Mars_.

The feasts in November are unimportant.

_December_.

5. _Faunalia_, in honor of Faunus.
19. _Saturnalia_, sacred to Saturn. A Roman thanksgiving for the
harvest. It lasted seven days, during which the slaves had their
liberty, in memory of the age of Saturn, when all were equal. The
rich kept open table to all comers, and themselves waited on the
slaves. Presents were interchanged, sc