februa

Numa, February comes from februa; and is as much as Purification month; in it they make offerings to the dead, and celebrate the

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

The original Roman calendar had 10 months, and around 700 BC January and February were added -- January for Janus, the Roman god of beginnings who had two faces to look backward at the old year, forward at the new, and February for either the Italian god Februs or from februa, signifying the festivals of purification celebrated in Rome during this month.

Richard Wurman: The Month of Remember: From '33' By Richard Saul Wurman Richard Wurman 2010

The original Roman calendar had 10 months, and around 700 BC January and February were added -- January for Janus, the Roman god of beginnings who had two faces to look backward at the old year, forward at the new, and February for either the Italian god Februs or from februa, signifying the festivals of purification celebrated in Rome during this month.

Richard Wurman: The Month of Remember: From '33' By Richard Saul Wurman Richard Wurman 2010

For the use of _id_, Ehwald (_KB_ 47) cited _Fast_ II 23-24 'quaeque capit lictor domibus purgamina uersis [' swept out ']/torrida cum mica farra, uocantur _idem_ [_sc_ februa]', Hor _Sat_ II iii 139-41 (of Orestes) 'non Pyladen ferro uiolare aususue sororem/Electram, tantum male dicit utrique uocando/hanc Furiam, hunc _aliud_', Sen _Ben_ I 3 10 'id quemque uocari iubent', and Tac _Germ_ 6 'definitur et numerus: centeni ex singulis pagis sunt, _id_que ipsum inter suos uocantur' [ 'they are called "The Hundred"'] '.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

_februa_ (strips of the victim's skin) made women fertile; they were therefore clearly magical implements, but beyond this we do not seem to get.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

The original Roman calendar had 10 months, and around 700 BC January and February were added -- January for Janus, the Roman god of beginnings who had two faces to look backward at the old year, forward at the new, and February for either the Italian god Februs or from februa, signifying the festivals of purification celebrated in Rome during this month.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Richard Wurman 2010