The feasting and wine-drinking of the previous
evening would have spilled over, most likely literally, into this and
the subsequent days. Jupiter and Meditrina were honored again on this
day. This day was also celebrated as a prelude to the Fontinalia, which
starts presumably at midnight.
In Greece this was the second day of the
Athenian Thesmophoria. The Thesmophoria was a fertility festival. They
would carry sacred baskets containing phallic symbols in a ceremonial
procession to the Acropolis. The priestesses would offer themselves freely
as public prostitutes as a means of ensuring the fertility of the cornfields.