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34 Or do these honours belong to deities beneath the earth, and is it the proper season to honour these deities when all the crops have attained consummation?

34 Or is it most fitting to remember those below when men are stirring the earth at the beginning of seed-time?

34 Or is it because this month has been consecrated to Saturn by the Romans, and they regard Saturn as an infernal, not a celestial god?

34 Or is it that then their greatest festival, the Saturnalia, is set: and it is reputed to contain the most numerous social gatherings and enjoyments, and therefore Brutus deemed it proper to bestow upon the dead first-fruits, as it were, of this festival also?

34 Or is this statement, that Brutus alone sacrificed to the dead in this month, altogether a falsehood? For it is in December that they make offerings to Larentia and bring libations to her sepulchre.

35 And why do they thus honour Larentia who was at one time a courtesan?