September 23, 2011

ante diem ix kalendas octobres rites in honour of Latona at the Theatre of Marcellus Mercatus — those cupboards must have been really empty! 484 B.C. — Birth of Euripides (?) 480 B.C. — Athenian naval forces under Themistocles defeat Xerxes’ Persian force in the narrows of Salamis (one reckoning) 63 B.C. — birth of…

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