TDIAH

  • ante diem iii idus quintiles ¶ ludi Apollinares (day 8)– 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 ¶ 431 B.C. (?) — dedication of the Temple of Apollo outside the pomoerium…

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  • ante diem iv idus quintiles ludi Apollinares (day 7) — 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 100 B.C. (?) — birth of G. Julius Caesar 67 A.D. — martyrdom of…

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  • nonae iuliae ludi Apollinares (day 2)– 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 feriae Ancillarum — a festival in honour of the “maids” who helped save Rome from a Latin attack…

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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,…

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  • ante diem iv nonas quintiles 13 B.C. — dedication of the Ara Pacis  

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