April, May, and June

But April, May, and June are less easy to explain. It seems best, even in the case of June, to reject the claims of the goddesses whom Ovid favours, and to refer the names of the three months to the primitive Latin farmer's outlook upon the year. They will then severally be the months of the 'expanding' of crops (cf. aperire), of 'growing’ (cf. maior)., and of 'thriving' (cf. iuvare).