[100] Why is it that on the Ides of August, formerly called Sextilis, all the slaves, female and male, keep holiday, and the Roman women make a particular practice of washing and cleansing their heads?
Do the servants have release from work because on this day King Servius was born from a captive maid-servant?[232] And did the washing of their heads begin with the slave-women, because of their holiday, and extend itself to free-born women?