Ancient legends of Roman history . May; and the 15th, 17th, and 21st of February to the sepul-chral worship of the Lupercalia, Quirinalia, and mere glance at the Roman calendar will show that cer-tain portions of the year, or of months, were sacred to theworship of related divinities. April was sacred to thegoddess of the standing corn and of wine, and to the divin-ities which presided over the parturition of animals. Marchwas sacred to the god of arms. To the worship of theearth and of the dead were especially dedicated the monthsof ^ December, February, and May. According to therel
Ancient legends of Roman history . May; and the 15th, 17th, and 21st of February to the sepul-chral worship of the Lupercalia, Quirinalia, and mere glance at the Roman calendar will show that cer-tain portions of the year, or of months, were sacred to theworship of related divinities. April was sacred to thegoddess of the standing corn and of wine, and to the divin-ities which presided over the parturition of animals. Marchwas sacred to the god of arms. To the worship of theearth and of the dead were especially dedicated the monthsof ^ December, February, and May. According to thereligious ideas of the Romans, there existed a close relationbetween the worship of the earth and the awakening anddying of the year on the one hand, and the souls of thedead on the other. This fact serves to explain how it wasthat the 1st of May was sacred to the Lares Praestites (theprotectors of the city), the 9th, nth, and 13th to the Le-mures; and how, in the second half of the same month, ACCA LARENTIA 65 there fell the feast o
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