ante diem xiii kalendas decembres
- Mercatus — time to restock the pantry after the lengthy festival in honour of Jupiter
- 1665 — death of Nicholas Poussin (painter of many Classical subjects)
- 1797 — birth of Charles Anthon (prolifically-published American Classicist)
- 1903 — birth of Sterling Dow (who perfected the squeeze, among other important contributions to epigraphy and archaeology)
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