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Day: March 17, 2009
This Day in Ancient History
ante diem xvi kalendas apriles
- Festival of Mars continues (day 17)
- Liberalia — a festival of general merriment and wine drinking in honour of Liber Pater (another name for Bacchus)
- Agonalia — the rex sacrificulus would offer a ram to various deities
- 45 B.C. — Julius Caesar defeats Pompey’s sons and Labienus at Munda
- 136 A.D. — the future emperor Marcus Aurelius dons the toga virilis
- 180 A.D. — death of Marcus Aurelius at Bononia
- 461 A.D. — death of Saint Patrick (traditional)
Classical Words of the Day
- epistolary (Wordsmith)
- libation (Dictionary.com)
