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- 7 (Nones): Nonae
Caprotinae; Ancillarum Feriae (Festival
of the Serving Women);[15] sacrifice
to Consus by
unspecified public priests (sacerdotes publici);
also a minor festival to the two Pales
6-20 nones iul
- 8: Vitulatio
6-21 viii id iul
- 9 6-22 vii id iul
- 10 6-23 vi id iul
- 11 6-24 v id iul
- 12 6-25 iv id iul
- 13 6-26 iii id iul
- 14–19: a series of markets or
fairs (mercatus) following
the Ludi Apollinares; not religious holidays 6-27 prid id iul
- 15 (Ides): Transvectio
equitum, a procession of cavalry 6-28 id
iul
- 16
- 17: anniversary of the Temple
of Honos and Virtus; sacrifice to Victory
- 18: a dies
ater ("black day," meaning a day of ill omen)
marking the defeat of the Romans by the Gauls at
the Battle
of the Allia in 390 BC, leading to the sack of
Rome by the Gauls
- 19, 21: Lucaria
- 20–30: Ludi Victoriae Caesaris,
"Games of the Victorious Caesar", held annually from 45 BC[16]
- 21
- 22: anniversary of the Temple
of Concordia at the foot of the Capitol
- 23: Neptunalia held
in honour of Neptune
- 24
- 25: Furrinalia, feriae
publicae in honour of Furrina
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30: anniversary of the Temple
of the Fortune of This Day (Fortunae Huiusque
Diei)
Until renamed for Augustus
Caesar, this month was called Sextilis, originally the sixth month (sext-)
when the year began in March.
- 1 (Kalends): anniversary of
the Temple of Spes (Hope)
in the Forum
Holitorium, with commemorations also for the "two Victories"
on the Palatine
- 2
- 3: Supplicia
canum ("punishment of the dogs") an unusual
dog sacrifice and procession at the temples of Iuventas
("Youth") and Summanus, connected to the Gallic siege
- 4
- 5: public sacrifice (sacrificium
publicum) at the Temple of Salus on
the Quirinal
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9: public sacrifice to Sol
Indiges
- 10
- 11
- 12: sacrifice of a heifer to
Hercules Invictus, with a libation from the skyphos of
Hercules
- 13 (Ides): festival of Diana
on the Aventine (Nemoralia),
with slaves given the day off to attend; other deities honored
at their temples include Vortumnus,
Fortuna Equestris, Hercules Victor (or Invictus at the Porta
Trigemina), Castor
and Pollux, the Camenae,
and Flora
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17: Portunalia in
honour of Portunus;
anniversary of the Temple of Janus
- 18
- 19: Vinalia
Rustica, originally in honour of Jupiter, but later Venus
- 20
- 21: Consualia,
with a sacrifice on the Aventine
- 22
- 23: Vulcanalia or Feriae
Volcano in honour of Vulcan,
along with sacrifices to Maia, the Nymphs in
campo ("in the field", perhaps the Campus
Martius), Ops Opifera, and a Hora
- 24: sacrifices to Luna on the Graecostasis;
and the first of three days when the mysterious ritual pit
called the mundus was
opened
- 25: Opiconsivia or Feriae
Opi in honour of Ops Consivae at the Regia
- 26
- 27: Volturnalia,
when the Flamen
Volturnalis made a sacrifice to Volturnus
- 28: Games at the Circus
Maximus (circenses) for
Sol and Luna
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