Vestalia
Vestalia, a festival of the Roman calendar.
What it was like
Garlanded donkeys and barefoot women
At the Vestalia the bakers and millers had a holiday: loaves hung from the garlanded donkeys that turned the mills, and flowers covered the rough millstones. Ovid also saw a matron walking barefoot down to Vesta's temple, and an old woman explained that this had once been marshland.
Ecce coronatis panis dependet asellis, / et velant scabras florida serta molas
“See, bread hangs from the garlanded donkeys, and flowery wreaths cover the rough millstones.”
LATIN LINE OF THE DAY
Scribere me quereris, Velox, epigrammata longa.
“You complain, Velox, that I write long epigrams.”