The great holidays, too, and these had been legion, have been avoided, not as a result of they had been unlucky, but because on these days associates and family members were certain to produce other engagements. Besides these the diēs parentālēs, February 13-21, and the days when the entrance to the decrease world was speculated to be open, August 24, October 5, and November 8, were fastidiously averted.