210 FOUTY DAYS OF ST. SWITIIIX. 



JULY 28. SS. NizAuius and Celsus, martyrs, 

 about the year 68. 

 St. Victor, pope and martyr, 201. 

 St. Innocent I. pope, 417. 

 St. Sampson, bishop, 564. 



Neptunalia. — Julian Cal. 



065. St. Nizarius was son of a heathen, but his mother was a 

 zealous Christian ; Nizarius embraced her faith with great ardour, 

 and preached the gospel in many places with a fervour and disin- 

 terestedness becoming a disciple ot the Apostles. Ht; was beheaded 

 at IMilan with Celsus, a youth whom he had carried with him to 

 assist him in his travels. Their bodies were discovered by St. 

 Ambrose in 395. 



Mountain Groundsel Senecio montanus full fl. 

 This plant is apt to be troublesome in gardens from its increase. 



The weather at this time of year is often particularly subject to 

 thunderstorms. In 18"22 they were particularly violent all the way 

 from Switzerland to the north of England, in France, Holland, and 

 Germany ; and on this day in that year one of the most destructive 

 tempests fell at Lausanne that was ever remembered. 



The Xeptunalia were celebrated today in antient Rome, and it 

 seems probable that Horace alludes to this day in the following 

 Ode, Carm. lib. ii. Od. 29 :— 



Festo quid potius die 



Aeptuni faciam 1 prome reconditum, 

 Lyde strenua, Caecubum : 



Munitaeque adhibe vim sapientiae, 

 Inclinare meridiem 



Sentis : ac, veluti stet volucris dies, 

 Parcis deripere horreo 



Cessantem Bibuli consulis amphoram. 

 Nos cantabimus invicem 



Neptunum et virides Nereidum comas : 

 Tu curva recines lyra 



Latonam, et celeris spicula Cynthiae : 

 Summo carmine, quae Cnidon 



Fulgentesque tenet Cycladas, et Paphon 

 Junctis visit oloribus, 



Dicetur ; merita Nox quoque naenia. 



About this time parties used to be formed to sail to certain parts 

 of the Thames bank, where white bait were caught, and to eat them 

 in white wine. 



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