TDIAH
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ante diem xiii kalendas apriles Festival of Mars (day 20) Quinquatrus (day 2) — second day of a five-day festival (although the name originally came from the fact that it came five days after the Ides, apparently) sacred to Mars but also somehow connected to Minerva; it was also apparently a ‘school holiday’, so no…
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ante diem xv kalendas apriles Festival of Mars (Day 19) Quinquatrus (Day 1) — a festival celebrating Minerva’s birthday (maybe) rites in honour of Minerva (obviously connected to the above) 11 B.C.E. — Herod dedicates his renovated Temple in Jerusalem 303 A.D. — Martyrdom of Pancharius of Nicomedia 363 A.D. — fire destroys the Temple…
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ante diem xvi kalendas apriles Festival of Mars continues (day 18) 37 A.D. — The dead emperor Tiberius’ will is annulled and Gaius (Caligula) is given the title “Augustus” by the senate 235 A.D. (?) — murder of Alexander Severus at Moguntiacum (Mainz)
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ante diem xvi kalendas apriles Festival of Mars continues (day 17) Liberalia — a festival of general merriment and wine drinking in honour of Liber Pater (another name for Bacchus) Agonalia — the rex sacrificulus would offer a ram to various deities 45 B.C. — Julius Caesar defeats Pompey’s sons and Labienus at Munda 136…
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nonae martiae Festival of Mars continues (day 7) rites at the temple of Vediovis on the Capitoline 322 B.C. — death of Aristotle (maybe) 149 A.D. — birth of a daughter, Lucilla, to the emperor Marcus Aurelius 161 A.D. — death of Antoninus Pius; dies imperii of Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius 203 A.D.– martyrdom…
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