This Day in Ancient History

ante diem vii idus martias

  • Festival of Mars (day 9) which included another procession of the Salian priests around the city

  • 320 A.D. — martyrdom of Candidus and the other “Forty Armenian Martyrs”

This Day in Ancient History

ante diem vi nonas martias

  • Festival of Mars (Day 2)

  • c. 55 A.D. (?) — birth of Decimus Junius Juvenalis … a.k.a. Juvenal

  • 258 A.D. — Martyrdom of Jovinus and Basileus at Rome