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ante diem iii nonas decembres Possible date for rites in honour of the bona dea: essentially private rituals for Roman women only held in the house of a consul or praetor and attended by the Vestal Virgins and assorted upper class types. The actual date does not appear to have been ‘fixed’ and, of course,…
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kalendas decembres rites in honour of Neptune (connected with an altar rededication or a temple dedication?) rites in honour of Pietas near the Circus Flaminius (not much known about this one, apparently) 147 A.D. — Annia Galeria Faustina, wife of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, is given the title of Augusta
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pridie kalendas decembres 406 B.C. — death of Euripides (by one reckoning) 147 A.D. — birth of Annia Galeria Faustina, the daughter of the emperor-to-be Marcus Aurelius 1817 — birth of Theodor Mommsen, Nobel prize winning ancient historian
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ante diem iii kalendas decembres 257 A.D. — martyrdom of Saturninus of Toulouse 275 A.D. — martyrdom of Philomenus of Ancyra
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ante diem iv kalendas decembres 66 (or 67) A.D. — the emperor Nero proclaims the “freedom of the Greeks”
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