festival
Terminalia
also: Terminalia
Roman festival of the boundary-god Terminus, held on 23 February; Cicero dates the receipt of Atticus's letter by reckoning from it.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 6.1 §1 the fifth day before the Terminalia
The Terminalia, festival of the boundary-god Terminus, fell on 23 February; reckoned inclusively the fifth day before it is 19 February 50 BC, the day Cicero received the letter at Laodicea.
- Twelfth Philippic §24 at the Terminalia
The Terminalia, the festival of Terminus (god of boundaries) on 23 February; Cicero notes he dared not even venture to the suburbs that day, to show how perilous a journey to Mutina would be.