Lucky day: marking with a white stone, C. I. xxxvi. 10.
Manes, Epp. II. i. 134-138.
March, see Months.
Marriage-bed, dedicated to the genii of bride and groom, and placed at the entrance of the house for a good omen, Epp. I. i. 87-89.
Meals, singing at, C. IV. xv. 25-32.
Medicine: Apollo as the healer, C. S. 62-64; hellebore for insanity, S. II. iii. 80-83; Epp. II. ii. 137; A. P. 299-303; hemlock a febrifuge, Epp. II. ii. 52-54; medicinal plants, Ep. ii. 57, 58; ointment for the eyes, S. I. v. 30; southernwood, Epp. II. i. 114.
Months: April sacred to Venus, C. I. iv. 5, IV. xi. 15, 16; March festival; the Salii, C. IV. i. 28.
Moon, causing insanity, A. P. 453, 454.
Moon, new, C. III. xix. 9, xxiii. 1, 2; and shell-fish, S. II. iv. 30.
Oaths, Epp. II. i. 16; swearing by the ashes of the dead, C. III. viii. 9; also see Perjury.
Olive, see Trees.
Omens: bed at the entrance of the house for a good omen, Epp. I. i. 87-89; birds, C. III. xxvii. 1-16; the overflowing of the Tiber, C. I. ii. 13-16; thunder heard in a clear sky, C. I. xxxiv. 5-8.
Passions, origin of the, C. I. xvi. 13-16.
Penates, C. III. xxiii. 17-20.
Perjury, punished by a bodily affliction, C. II. viii. 1-5.
Pine, see Trees.
Poplar, see Trees.
Rain and the stars, C. I. iii. 14.
Raven, foretelling good weather, C. III. xxvii. 9-12.
Rings: lovers' games with, C. I. ix. 21-24.
Rivers, marriage of, C. I. ii. 17-20; fountain-head, sacred, C. I. i. 22.
Salt, sacred, C. II. xvi. 13, 14, III. xxiii. 20; S. I. iii. 14, II. iii. 200.
Sea, the: Castor and Pollux the sailor-helpers, C. I. iii. 1-6, IV. viii. 31, 32; votive offerings after shipwreck, C. I. v. 13-16; A. P. 20.
Shell-fish, best at the time of the new moon, S. II. iv. 30.