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ante diem iv nonas februarias 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Apronian the Executioner at Ancona … it’s Candlemas Day … eat those pancakes! And for all you Latin teachers out there … you can present this Latin ‘distich’ quoted by Thomas Browne in Robert Chambers Book of Days (the quoting of) which predates Punxsutawney Phil…
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kalendae februariae Rites in honour of Juno Sospita: Juno Sospita was originally worshipped in Lanuvium, where she seems to have had started out as a fertility goddess of some sort and evolved into a warrior protectrix of the city. When Lanuvium was granted Roman citizenship in 338 B.C., the cult was also given special status…
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pridie kalendas februarias 1000 B.C. — temple of Hercules at Tyre completed (according to one ‘traditional’ reckoning) 817 B.C. — death of Anchises (according to the same reckoning) 36 B.C. — birth of Antonia (“Minor”), daughter of Marcus Antonius and Octavia and future mother of hope-to-be-emperor Germanicus and emperor-to-be Claudius c. 250 A.D. — martyrdom…
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ante diem iii kalendas februarias 405 B.C. — death of Sophocles (by one reckoning) 58 B.C. — “official” birthday of Livia, wife of Augustus 9 B.C. — dedication of the Ara Pacis 133 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Didius Julianus 228 A.D. — martyrdom of Martina (?) 311 A.D. — martyrdom of Savina…
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ante diem iv kalendas februarias 164 B.C. — death of Antiochus Epiphanes (according to one reckoning) 1 B.C. — departure of Gaius Caesar to the east (?) 275 A.D. — death of Aurelian (according to one reckoning, which doesn’t seem right)
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