ante diem viii kalendas decembres
- 29/30 A.D. — partial solar eclipse in the eastern Mediterranean which is sometimes associated with the crucifixion
- 62 A.D. — death of the satirist Aulus Persius Flaccus (source?)
- 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Felicissimus and Firmina
- 1785 — birth of August Boeckh (one of those old time German philologists who live on in scholarly footnotes)
- 1914 — b
irth of Bernard Knox (Classicist extraordinaire)
- 1977 — the discovery of a tomb believed to be that of Philip II of Macedon is announced
- 1998 — death of John Chadwick
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