ante diem viii idus februarias
- 46 B.C. — victory of Julius Caesar over pro-Pompey forces at Thapsus
- 300 A.D. — martyrdom of Theophilus Scholasticus ‘The Lawyer’
- 1811 — birth of H.G. Liddell (co-author of the massive Greek Lexicon which is still standard and father of Alice in Wonderland)
- 2001 — death of Emily Vermeule (author of Greece in the Bronze Age, among several other works)
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