neptunalia

Updated: January 29, 2026

There may have been other popular "jollifications" of this kind, for example at the Neptunalia on July 23, where we find the same curious custom of making temporary huts or shelters; but this is the only one of which we have any account by an eye-witness.

W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler - Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero