TDIAH
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ante diem vii kalendas februarias Sementivae or Paganalia (day ?) — Sementivae was a festival of sowing which was actually a moveable feast (although I’m not sure of the moveability criteria; I’m guessing that the first day falls between January 24 and 26). By Ovid’s time it appears to have been coincident with Paganalia, which…
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ante diem xii kalendas februarias ludi palatini (day 1/4) 63 A.D. — birth of Claudia (daughter of Nero and Poppaea) 1609 — death of Joseph Justus Scaliger
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ante diem xiv kalendas februarias Ludi Palatini (day 3) c. 155 A.D. — martyrdom of Germanicus in Smyrna 169 A.D. — martyrdom of Pontianus c. 251 A.D. — martyrdom of Messalina
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ante diem xviii kalendas februarias carmentalia (day 2) — an annual festival in honour of the nymph Carmenta (a divinity associated with prophecy and childbirth; also the mother of Evander) celebrated primarily by women on the 11th and 15th of January 69 A.D. — murder of Galba and his adopted son Piso; dies imperii of…
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ante diem xix kalendas februarias ca. 82 B.C. — birth of Marcus Antonius (a.k.a. Mark Anthony)
