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pridie nonas julias ludi Apollinares (day 1) — games instituted in 212 B.C. after consulting the Sybilline books during a particularly bad stretch in the Punic Wars; four years later they became an annual festival in honour of Apollo late fifth century B.C.? — in the wake of the aborted attack on Rome by Coriolanus,…
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ante diem v nonas quinctilias ca 72 A.D. — Martyrdom of Thomas the Apostle 273 A.D. — Martyrdom of Irenaeus 324 A.D. — Victory of Constantine over Licinius at the Battle of Adrianople
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ante diem vi nones quinctilias ca 68 A.D. martyred soldiers of Rome
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kalendae quintilis rites in honour of Juno rites in honour of Felicitas 69 A.D. — Vespasian hailed as emperor in Alexandria 70 A.D. — Titus attacks the walls of Jerusalem 1614 — death of Isaac Casaubon
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pridie kalendas quinctilis Outside of the wedding anniversary of the rogueclassicist, the closest thing to anything ‘Classical’ for this date is the commemoration of the Protomartyrs of Rome (given a date of 64 A.D.) who were the Christians scapegoated by Nero for the big fire …
