February 17, 2011
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ante diem xiii kalendas martias Parentalia (Day 5) — the period for appeasing the dead continued Quirinalia — festival honouring the namesake of the Quirinal hill, the Sabine divinity Quirinus, who was later identified with Romulus. Little else is known about the festival. 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Donatus and 80+ others near Venice 1776…