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• 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 case, on this day the Rex Sacrorum would offer some sort of sacrifice in the Comitium and then run away as fast as he could …
• 259 A.D. — martyrdom of Montanus and several companions at Carthage
• 303 A.D. — edict of Galerius officially promoting the persecution of Christians (?)
• 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Sergius in Cappadocia
• 1463 — birth of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (usually described as a “Neoplatonist”)
• 1999 — death of David Daube (author of Civil Disobedience in Antiquity, among numerous other works)

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 of their family. There was usually a big family reunion type banquet and worship was given to the Lares.
• 4 A.D. — death of hoped-for-successor-to-Augustus Gaius Caesar (either February 21 or 22) in Limyra
• c. 1st century A.D. — martyrdom of Aristion, place disputed
• 1756 — birth of Gilbert Wakefield (Classicist)

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 Caesar (either February 21 or 22) in Limyra

• Parentalia (Day 6)– the period for appeasing the dead continues

• 1559 — birth of Isaac Casaubon