festival
Floralia
also: Floralia, Florales
The spring festival of the goddess Flora (late April), notorious for licentious games in which courtesans stripped at the people's demand.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §16.97.8 Floralian
The Floralia, spring festival of the goddess Flora, notorious for licentious games in which courtesans stripped at the crowd's demand — said to have been suspended out of deference when Cato was present.