pridie kalendas maias
Lucanus, De bello civili ed. Pulmann (Plantin 1592), p. 004-005 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
ludi Florae (day 4)
65 A.D. — death of Marcus Annaeus Lucanus … a.k.a. Lucan (by one reckoning)
304 A.D. — beginning of Diocletianic persecutions under Galerius
311 A.D. — Edict of Toleration of Galerius
1936 — death of A.E. Housman
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