March is called from Martius, Mars. He was not much respected by the ancients, nor is he by the moderns, chiefly on account of an unpopular ceremony which they are liable to perform ob the 25th of his month. His two horses, Flight and Fear, typify another ceremony sometimes performed a few days, on rather nights, before that date, when the goddess Dictynna is metaphorically said to be shot. Magpies were sacrificed to him, and gossipping old old women (happily) suffer severely by his blasts. He was father of Harmonia, and about this time concert-givers begin to tout for gratuitous assistance from professionals. He was called Mavors, yet soldiers seldom know much of the spelling-book. He electrified Electryon (for omitting to call him one morning), by turning him into a cock, and hence cocks were shied at on Shrove Tuesday.
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