The festival of the Meditranalia begins the festive period of the month. Meditrina is the goddess of healing, and wine would have been consumed in her honor as it was considered to have medicinal properties. Jupiter also, as a wine-god, was honored on this day. Feasting and games were in order for this and the next several days.

In Greece this was the first day of the Athenian Thesmophoria. The Thesmophoria was a fertility festival. They would carry sacred baskets containing phallic symbols in a ceremonial procession to the Acropolis. The priestesses would offer themselves freely as public prostitutes as a means of ensuring the fertility of the cornfields.

This is the third and final day of the Thesmophoria in Greece.

Quotations from Roman Festivals of October.