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Question 89. Why do they call the Quirinalia the Feast
of Fools?
[p. 252]
Solution. Was it because they set apart that day for
those that were unacquainted with their own curiae, as
Juba saith? Or was it for them that did not sacrifice with
their tribes, as the rest did, in the Fornicalia, by reason of
business or long journeys or ignorance, so that it was
allowed to them to solemnize that feast upon this day?
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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