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rites in honour of Latona at the Theatre of Marcellus Mercatus — those cupboards must have been really empty! 484 B.C. — Birth of Euripides (?) 480 B.C. — Athenian naval forces under Themistocles defeat Xerxes’ Persian force in the narrows of Salamis (one reckoning) 63 B.C. — birth of Octavius, the future emperor Augustus…
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ludi Romani (day 15) 86 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Antoninus Pius 208 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Diadumenianus 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Januarius
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IN THE NEWS … 4th-century fragment of the Odyssey discovered Rare 2,000-Year-Old Celtic Silver Hoard Found Beneath a Former Sports Field | Arkeonews Roman ruins found beneath Newport school sparking huge excavation project | Wales Online Researchers Have Analyzed the Roman Empire’s 190,000-Mile Network of Roads. Turns Out, Not All of Them Led to Rome…
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ludi Romani (day 14) 31 A.D. — execution of Sejanus (still not sure about that one) 53 A.D. (?) — birth of the future emperor Trajan 96 A.D. — murder of the emperor Domitian; dies imperii of the emperor Nerva 1709 — Birth of Samuel Johnson
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