TDIAH
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pridie nonas septembres 518 B.C. — birth of Pindar (by one reckoning) ca 117 — martyrdom of Hermione 1989 — death of Sir Ronald Syme (The Roman Revolution)
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ante diem iii nonas septembres 36 B.C. — Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa’s fleet defeats that of Sextus Pompeius at Naulochus
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ante diem iv nonas septembres 31 B.C. — Octavian defeats Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra at Actium 490 B.C. — Pheidippides runs to Sparta for help against Persians at Marathon (one traditional date)
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ante diem viii idus iulias ludi Apollinares (day 3) — 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 rites in honour of Vitula, possibly honouring a divinity who supposedly presided over victory…
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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,…
rogue classicism 