ante diem v nonas quintiles
324 A.D. — Victory of Constantine over Licinius at the Battle of Adrianople
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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vi nones quintiles
ante diem vi nones quintiles
- ca 68 A.D. martyred soldiers of Rome
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iii kalendas quinctilias
ante diem iii kalendas quinctilias
179 B.C. (?) — dedication of a Temple of Hercules and the Muses (and associated rites thereafter)
29 B.C. — restoration of the Temple of Quirinus
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem v kalendas quinctilias
ante diem v kalendas quinctilias
Dancing Lare holding a rhyton and a patera. Bronze statuette, first century AD. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
rites in honour of the Lares
after 294 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Jupiter Stator on the Palatine (and subsequent rites thereafter)
ca. 1st century A.D. — martyrdom of Crescens
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vi kalendas quinctilias
ante diem vi kalendas quinctilias
ludi Taurei quinquennales (day 2) — horse races held every five years to appease the divinities of the underworld
23 B.C. (and several years after) — the emperor Augustus is given tribunicia potestas
4 A.D. — the emperor Augustus adopts Tiberius (son of his wife Livia) and Agrippa Postumus (son of Augustus’ daughter Julia and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa)
221 A.D. — the emperor Elagabalus adopts the future emperor Severus Alexander and gives him the rank of Caesar (?)
363 A.D. — death of the emperor Julian
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