On the 24th of March, a dies fissus in the Roman calendar, it would appear that when the rex sacrorum or priest of the sacred rites - the ceremonial descendant of the original monarch - made an appearance in the Comitium, the tubae that had been lustrated on the previous day were then used to signal the end of the auspicious period in which the month and year had begun (quando rex comitiavit fas). The ritual focus that sought expulsion and purification completed, and the remainder of this day and those that followed reverted to be ordinary dies fasti and not feriae or the dies religiosi that marked the activities of the Salii. Henceforth, a normal series of days that were commensurate for legal and general business ensued.