an ancient Roman festival, celebrated annually on the 11th and 15th of January in honour of Carmenta or Carmentis, a prophetess of Arcadia, and the mother of Evander, with whom she came into Italy sixty years before the Trojan war. This feast, which was chiefly celebrated by women, was established in commemoration of a great fecundity among the Roman matrons after a general reconciliation with their husbands, with whom they had been at variance on account of the use of coaches having been prohibited them by an edict of the senate.