This Day in Ancient History: pridie idus decembres

  • Rites in honour of Consus on the Aventine Hill; this possibly relates to a restoration of a temple of Consus by Augustus.
  • 404 B.C. — death of Darius II ‘Nothus’ (according to one reckoning)
  • 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Dionysia
  • 287 A.D. — martyrdom of Crescentius

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