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ante diem iv idus quintilias 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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ante diem v idus iulias ludi Apollinares (day 6) — 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 1896 — death of Ernst Curtius (historian/archaeologist) 1941 — death of Sir Arthur Evans…
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pridie kalendas quinctilis Outside of the wedding anniversary of the rogueclassicist, the closest thing to anything ‘Classical’ for this date is the commemoration of the Protomartyrs of Rome (given a date of 64 A.D.) who were the Christians scapegoated by Nero for the big fire …
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ante diem iv kalendas quinctilias 4 A.D. –the future emperor Tiberius adopts his nephew Germanicus 202 A.D. — martyrdom of Irenaeus at Lugdunum c. 202 A.D. — martyrdom of Potamiaena 1701 — Death of Thomas Creech (translator of various Latin poets)
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ante diem v kalendas quinctilias 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
