• Festival of Mars (day 4)
• 51 A.D. — the future emperor Nero is given the title princeps iuventutis
• ca 254 A.D. — martyrdom of Gaius

… and ten years ago at rogueclassicism, it was pretty busy, what with security studies at Pompeii in the wake of some unbelievable thefts … we were also getting our first hints of what was dubbed a ‘gladiator graveyard’ at Ephesus (three items!), some beauty secrets from Cleopatra, and some background on the Latin in the Passion