"But far away he heard... the Feminine Goddess's secret site and springs deserving to be propitiated and rites not uncovered by any men without punishment." #Propertius#Elegies#BonaDea#MayDay
"Therefore, at first light, Milichus traversed the Servilian gardens; and while he was blocked at the doors, he said again and again that he brought great and terrible news..." #Tacitus#Annals#Nero#PisonianConspiracy
"But the thrown celebration of traditional gifts extends the public running-about and joy of conscientiousness into seven days." #Macrobius#Saturnalia#MerryChristmas2020
"Whereas Callippus assigned to Jupiter and Saturn the same number of spheres as Eudoxus, he considered that two further spheres should be added both for the sun and for the moon..." #Aristotle#Metaphysics#Loeb@Harvard_Press#wintersolstice2020