ante diem iv nonas octobres

• fast in honour of Ceres — in 191 B.C., consultation of the Sybilline books ordered a fast to be held every five years in honour of the Roman goddess Ceres, who presided over grain and harvesting. By Augustus’ day, the fast was an annual event which curiously coincides fairly closely with the Athenian Thesmophoria.
• ludi Augustales scaenici (day 2 — from 19-23 A.D.)
• 1909 — birth of James. B. Pritchard (“Biblical” archaeologist and author of The Ancient Near East, among other things)

kalendas octobres

• rites in honour of Fides on the Capitoline — these involved a procession of the flamines in a “two horse hooded carriage” to the shrine. The flamines had to bind themselves up as far as their fingers as a symbolic gesture that fides (good faith) had to be kept.
• rites associated with Juno Sororia at the tigillum — although a number of false etymologies associated this ritual of passing under a beam (the tigillum) with the tale of Horatius murdering his sister, it is more likely originally some sort of ‘coming of age’ ritual for Roman girls
• 331 B.C. — Battle of Gaugamela (one suggested date)
• 208 A.D. (?) — birth of the future emperor Severus Alexander

ante diem viii kalendas octobres

• 15 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Vitellius (?)

ante diem ix kalendas octobres

• rites in honour of Latona at the Theatre of Marcellus
• Mercatus — those cupboards must have been really empty!
• 484 B.C. — Birth of Euripides (?)
• 480 B.C. — Athenian naval forces under Themistocles defeat Xerxes’ Persian force in the narrows of Salamis (one reckoning)
• 63 B.C. — birth of Octavius, the future emperor Augustus
• 25 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Neptune (and associated rites thereafter)
• 23 B.C. — restoration of the temple of Apollo in the Campus Martius (and associated rites thereafter)
• 117 A.D. — martyrdom of Thecla