Salve Nantonos

While searching around for some commentaries of Roman religious law I came upon L. Cincius and thought you might be interested. He is known to have been written a commentary, De Fastis. Portions of his commentary are found in Macrobius' Saturnalia.

The first fragment said that the month of Aprilis could not have been named for the goddess Venus, since there are no festival days or sacrifices dedicated to Her in that month, and there is no mention of Venus in the carmina of the Salli where they offered praise to the celestial Gods. (Macro. 1.12.12).

The second fragment posed that the month of Maius was named for the goddess Maia, who he said was the wife of Volcanus, and pointed out that it was the flamen Volcanalis who offered sacrifice on the kalends of this month to Maia. (Macro. 1.12.18). BTW Piso disputed this, saying instead that the wife of Volcanus was Maiesta.

A third fragment said the month of Junius that followed Maius was originally named among the Latins after the god Junionus, and offered as proof that the month was still called by this name at Aricia and Praeneste. (Macro. 1.12.30).