[1499]. i. 361.
[1500]. So Ovid, on Feb. 26, writes (2. 853);
Fallimur, an veris praenuntia venit hirundo,
Et metuit ne qua versa recurrat hiems?
This would be early now for central Italy; but Columella, 11. 2, gives Feb. 23 as the date.
[1501]. Fasti, 2. 857 foll.
[1502]. Tertullian, de Praescriptionibus Haereticorum, 40.
[1503]. Collected by Aust in his work de Aedibus sacris, pp. 4 foll.
[1504]. Aust, op. cit., p. 14, note 1.