This Day in Ancient History: pridie kalendas martias

pridie kalendas martias

  • Amburbium — a ‘moveable feast’ which may or may not have actually been held on this day, but does seem to have happened near the end of February. A sacrificial procession was led around the boundaries of the city as a rite of purification.
  • 116 A.D. — supplicatio pro salute Traiani (day 3)
  • 1631 — birth of Henry Stubbe (Greek and Latin scholar and author of a work which is rather timely today, it seems).

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