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ante diem vi kalendas martias Regifugium — a festival which didn’t really happen on “February 24” but actually six days before the kalends of March, which was usually during a period of intercalation. Roman writers suggested this festival was a celebration of the expulsion of the Tarquins, although modern scholars have their doubts. Whatever the…
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ante diem viii kalendas martias Parentalia probably comes to and end with the festival of Caristia, which was a sort of ‘kiss and make up’ festival. The idea was that people had made peace with their dead, so now it was right to bring to an end any quarrels they were having with living members…
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ante diem ix kalendas martias Parentalia possibly comes to an end with the festival of Feralia, during which sheep were sacrificed to the dead; the additional rites mentioned by Ovid (Fasti 2.565 ff) apparently in connection with the Feralia probably have nothing to do specifically with the festival. 4 A.D. — death of hoped-for-successor-to-Augustus Gaius…
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Parentalia (Day 6)– the period for appeasing the dead continues 1559 — birth of Isaac Casaubon
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ante diem xiii kalendas martias Parentalia (Day 5) — the period for appeasing the dead continued Quirinalia — festival honouring the namesake of the Quirinal hill, the Sabine divinity Quirinus, who was later identified with Romulus. Little else is known about the festival. 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Donatus and 80+ others near Venice 1776…
