Today it is Dies Nefastus – the regular working day on which Romans may perform their routine, but it is not recommended to make final decisions, start new projects, sign the contracts or take voyages. Religious life goes with no specific restrictions on these days.
It is the 4th day before Nonae Februariae.
It is the A nundial day, the 4th day before the market day this year.
Today Roman celebrate the festival of Iuno Februata or Juno Februa, though it does not appear in Ovid’s Fasti, was described by Alban Butler, famous as the author of Butler’s Lives of Saints, who presented an aspect of the Roman Lupercalia as a festival of a “Juno Februata”, under the heading of February 14: To abolish the heathens lewd superstitious custom of boys drawing the names of girls, in honur of their goddess Februata Juno, on the fifteenth of this month, several zealous pastors substituted the names of saints in billets, given on this day. Jack Oruch, who noted Butler’s inventive confusion, noted that it was embellished by Francis Douce, in Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of Ancient Manners, who took such a festival for the Lupercalia, which was celebrated, he asserted, during a great art of the month of February…. in honor of Pan and Juno… On this occasion, amidst a variety of ceremonies, the names of young women were put into a box, from which they were drawn by the men as chance directed.”