in Antiquity, a Sicilian festival in honour of Persephone. The word is derived from ἀρέσω, flower, and φέρω, I carry; because that goddess was forced away by Pluto when she was gathering flowers in the fields. Yet Festus does not ascribe the feast to Persephone, but says it was thus called because ears of corn were carried on this day to the temples. Anthesperia seems to be the same thing with the floriferium of the Latins, and answers to the harvest-home among us.