THE FIRST OBSERVATION.

COncerning these Latinae Feriae,* it is to be noted, that the Romans had two sorts of Feriae, or Holy-daies; the one called Annales, which came alwaies to be kept on a certain day, and thereupon were called Anniversarii, or, yearly: the other, Conceptivae; which were arbi∣trary, and solemnized upon such daies, as the Magistrates and Priests thought most expedient, whereof these Latinae Feriae were chief; and were kept on Mount Albane, to Jupiter La∣tiar or Latialis, for the health and preservation of all the Latine people, in league and confede∣racy with the people of Rome, and were solem∣nized in remembrance of the truce between those two Nations: during which feast, the Ro∣mans held it unlawfull to make any war. The sacrifice was a white Bull, kill'd and offered by the Consuls, and the flesh distributed to the in∣habitants of Latium; according to an ancient Treaty of alliance between them, engraven for a perpetuall memory, in a Column of brasse. The particulars whereof are expressed at large by Dionysius Halicarnasseus.*