Non. Mart. (March 7). F.
[Vedi]ovi. Artis Vediovis Inter Duos Lucos. (Praen.)
Various conjectures have been made for correcting this note. We may take it that the first word is rightly completed: some letters seem to have preceded it, and feriae has been suggested98, but not generally accepted. The next word, Artis, must be a slip of the stone-cutter. That it was not Martis we are sure, as Ovid says that there was no note in the Fasti for this day except on the cult of Vediovis99. Even Mommsen is in despair, but suggests Aedis as a possibility, and that dedicata was accidentally omitted after it.
We do not know when the temple was dedicated100. The cult of Vediovis seems to have no special connexion with other March rites: and it seems as well to postpone consideration of it till May 21, the dedication-day of the temple in arce. See also on Jan. 1.