in Roman Antiquity, festivals of Bacchus, celebrated twice a year, the first on the 12th of the kalends of March, and the other on the 18th of the kalends of November. They were instituted by Romulus, who, during these feasts, used to entertain the senate. Among the heathen festivals which the primitive Christians were much inclined to observe, Tertullian mentions the bruma or brumalia.