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Roman calendar
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Roman calendar changed its form several

times between the founding of Rome and the fall of
the Roman Empire. The common calendar widely
used today is known as the Gregorian calendar and
is a refinement of the Julian calendar where the
average length of the year has been adjusted from
365.25 days to 365.2425 days (a 0.002% change).
From at least the period of Augustus on, calendars
were often inscribed in stone and displayed
publicly. Such calendars are called fasti.
Contents
Drawing of the fragmentary Fasti Antiates Maiores (ca.

60 BC), a Roman calendar from before the Julian reform,
with the seventh and eighth months still named Quintilis
("QVI") and Sextilis ("SEX"), and the intercalary month
("INTER") in the far righthand column (see enlarged)
1 History
1.1 Calendar of Romulus
1.2 Calendar of Numa
1.3 Reforms of Gnaeus Flavius
1.4 The Julian calendar
2 Intercalation
3 Months
4 Nundinal cycle
5 Character of the day
6 Years
7 Extant fasti
8 Converting pre-Julian dates
9 See also
10 Notes
11 References
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12 Further reading
13 External links
History
The original Roman calendar is believed to have been a lunar
calendar, which may have been based on one of the Greek lunar
calendars.[1] As the time between new moons averages 29.5 days its
months were constructed to be either hollow (29 days) or full (30
days).
Calendar of Romulus
Roman writers attributed the original Roman calendar to Romulus,
the mythical founder of Rome, though there is no other evidence for
the existence of such a calendar and Romulus was often cited as the
The Fasti Praenestini.
founder of practices whose origins were unknown to later Romans.
According to these writers, Romulus' calendar had ten months with
the spring equinox in the first month (likely based on the names of the last months of the year):
Calendar of Romulus
Martius (31 days)
Aprilis (30 days)
Maius (31 days)
Iunius (30 days)
Quintilis[2] (31 days)
Sextilis (30 days)
September (30 days)
October (31 days)
November (30 days)
December (30 days)
The regular calendar year thus consisted of 304 days, with the winter days after the end of December and
before the beginning of the following March not being assigned to any month.[3][4]
The origins of the names are also not entirely clear or agreed upon by modern scholars. Some ancient
explanations are: Martius in honour of Mars, the god of war; Aprilis from aperi, to open: Earth opens to
receive seed; Maius from Maia, goddess of growth (maior, elder); Iunius from iunior (younger). The
remaining six months were named with respect to their position on the calendar: the numbers five to ten in
Latin being quinque, sex, septem, octo, novem and decem, the months were named Quintilis, Sextilis,
September, October, November, and December.
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Calendar of Numa
Further reforms were attributed, again without firm evidence, to Numa Pompilius, the second of the seven
traditional kings of Rome. The Romans considered even numbers to be unlucky, so Numa took one day from
each of the six months with 30 days, reducing the number of days in the 10 previously defined months by a
total of six days.[5] There were 51 previously unallocated winter days, to which were added the six days
from the reductions in the days in the months, making a total of 57 days. These he made into two months,
January and February, which he prefixed to the previous 10 months. January was given 29 days, while
February had the unlucky number of 28 days, suitable for the month of purification (Februa, the Roman
festival of purification). This made a regular year (of 12 lunar months) 355 days long in place of the
previous 304 days of the Romulus calendar. Of the 11 months with an odd number of days, four had 31 days
each and seven had 29 days each:
Calendar of Numa
Civil calendar
Religious calendar
According to
According to Ovid[7]
Macrobius[3] (modern order due to According to Fowler[8]
and Plutarch[6] Decemviri, 450 BC)
Ianuarius (29)
Ianuarius
Martius
Februarius (28) Martius
Aprilis
Martius (31)
Aprilis
Maius
Aprilis (29)
Maius
Iunius
Maius (31)
Iunius
Quintilis
Iunius (29)
Quintilis
Sextilis
Quintilis (31)
Sextilis
September
Sextilis (29)
September
October
September (29) October
November
October (31)
December
November
November (29) December
Ianuarius
December (29) Februarius
Februarius
Reforms of Gnaeus Flavius

In 304 BC Gnaeus Flavius, a pontifical secretary, introduced a series of reforms. It is generally believed that
he initiated the custom of publishing the calendar in advance of the month, depriving the pontiffs of some of
their power, but allowing for a more consistent calendar for official business.[9]
The Julian calendar

Julius Caesar, as Pontifex Maximus, reformed the calendar in 46 BC. The new calendar became known as
the Julian calendar. Quintilis was renamed Iulius (July) in honour of Julius Caesar in 44 BC by Mark
Antony. A further change was made during the reign of his successor Augustus, when, apparently following
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the Senate, the plebiscite Lex Pacuvia de mense augusto renamed Sextilis Augustus (August) in 8 BC.[10][11]
Some documents state that the date of the change of the name started between 26 and 23 BC but the date of
the Lex Pacuvia is certain.
Intercalation
The regular calendar had only 355 days, which meant that it would quickly be unsynchronized with the solar
year, causing, for example, agricultural festivals to occur out of season. The Roman solution to this problem
was to periodically lengthen the calendar by adding extra days to February. February consisted of two parts,
each with an odd number of days. The first part ended with the Terminalia on the 23rd, which was
considered the end of the religious year, and the five remaining days formed the second part. To keep the
calendar year roughly aligned with the solar year, a leap month, called the Mensis Intercalaris ("intercalary
month"), was added from time to time between these two parts of February. The second part of February was
incorporated in the intercalary month as its last five days, with no change either in their dates or the festivals
observed on them. This follows naturally from the fact that the days after the Ides of February (in an
ordinary year) or the Ides of Intercalaris (in an intercalary year) both counted down to the Kalends of March.
The nones and ides of Intercalaris occupied the normal positions of the 5th and 13th of the month.
The third-century writer Censorinus says:
When it was thought necessary to add (every two years) an intercalary month of 22 or 23 days,
so that the civil year should correspond to the natural (solar) year, this intercalation was in
preference made in February, between Terminalia [23rd] and Regifugium [24th].[12]
The fifth-century writer Macrobius says that the Romans intercalated 22 and 23 days in alternate years
(Saturnalia, 1.13.12), the intercalation was placed after 23 February and the remaining five days of February
followed (Saturnalia, 1.13.15). To avoid the nones falling on a nundine, where necessary an intercalary day
was inserted "in the middle of the Terminalia, where they placed the intercalary month". (Saturnalia,
1.13.16, 1.13.19).[13]
This is historically correct. In 167 BC Intercalaris began on the day after 23 February [14] and in 170 BC it
began on the second day after 23 February.[15] Varro, writing in the first century BC, says "the twelfth month
was February, and when intercalations take place the five last days of this month are removed."[16] Since all
the days after the Ides of Intercalaris were counted down to the beginning of March Intercalaris had either 27
days (making 377 for the year) or 28 (making 378 for the year).
There is another theory which says that in intercalary years February had 23 or 24 days and Intercalaris had
27. No date is offered for the Regifugium in 378 - day years.[17]
The Pontifex Maximus determined when an intercalary month was to be inserted. On average, this happened
in alternate years. The system of aligning the year through intercalary months broke down at least twice: the
first time was during and after the Second Punic War. It led to the reform of the Lex Acilia in 191 BC, the
details of which are unclear, but it appears to have successfully regulated intercalation for over a century.
The second breakdown was in the middle of the first century BC and may have been related to the
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increasingly chaotic and adversarial nature of Roman politics at the time. The position of Pontifex Maximus
was not a full-time job; it was held by a member of the Roman elite, who would almost invariably be
involved in the machinations of Roman politics. Because the term of office of elected Roman magistrates
was defined in terms of a Roman calendar year, a Pontifex Maximus would have reason to lengthen a year in
which he or his allies were in power, or shorten a year in which his political opponents held office. For
example, Julius Caesar made the year of his third consulship in 46 BC 445 days long.
Months
In the earliest times, the three reference dates were probably declared publicly, when appropriate lunar
conditions were observed. After the reforms of Numa, they occurred on fixed days.
Kalendae (whence "calendar"), Kalendsfirst day of the month; it is thought to have originally been
the day of the new moon. According to some ancient or modern proposed etymologies of the word, it
was derived from the phrase kalo Iuno Covella or kalo Iuno Novella, meaning, respectively, "hollow
Juno I call you" and "new Juno I call you", an announcement about the Nones or in proclaiming the
new moon that marked the Kalends which the pontiffs made every first day of the month on the
Capitoline Hill in the Announcement Hall.[18]
Idus or Eidus, Idesthought to have originally been the day of the full moon, was the 15th day of
March, May, July, and October (the months with 31 days) and the 13th day of the others.
Nonae, Nonesthought to have originally been the day of the half moon. The Nones was eight days
before the Ides, and fell on the fifth or seventh day of the month, depending on the position of the
Ides. (Nones implies ninth from the Latin novem, because, counting Ides as first, one day before is the
second, and eight days before is the ninth).
The day preceding the Kalends, Nones, or Ides was Pridie, e.g., Prid. Id. Mart. = 14 March. Other days were
denoted by ordinal number, counting back from a named reference day. The reference day itself counted as
the first, so that two days before was denoted the third day. Dates were written as a.d. NN, an abbreviation
for ante diem NN, meaning "on the Nth (Numerus) day before the named reference day (Nomen)",[19] e.g.,
a.d. III Kal. Nov. = on the third day before the November Kalends = 30 October. The value two was not used
to denote a day before the fixed point, because second was the same as pridie. Further examples of date
equivalence are: a.d. IV Non. Jan. = 2 January; a.d. VI Non. Mai. = 2 May; a.d. VIII Id. Apr. = 6 April; a.d.
VIII Id. Oct. = 8 October; a.d. XVII Kal. Nov. = 16 October.
In detail, the system worked as follows:
Months were grouped in days such that the Kalends was the first day of the month, the Ides was the 13th day
of short months, or the 15th day of long months, and the Nones was the 9th day (counted inclusively) before
the Ides (i.e., the fifth or seventh day of the month). All other days of the month were counted backward
(inclusively) from these three dates. In both long and short months (except February and the mensis
intercalaris) there were 16 days between the Ides of the month and the Kalends of the next month, and the
date referred to the name of the next month, not that of the current month; thus, for example, the date of the
16th day of March was a.d. XVII Kal. Apr. In intercalary years, the first part of February was terminated on
the 23rd, i.e., the day of the Terminalia, and the festivals normally held in the last five days of February were
held instead in the last five days of the intercalary month, immediately before the Kalends of March. The
first 22 or 23 days of the intercalary month were inserted between these two parts.
So:
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In long months (31 daysMarch, May, July (Quintilis), and October), the days were divided into:
1st day of the month: 1 day for the Kalends of the month
2nd to 6th days of the month: 5 days before the Nones
7th day of the month: 1 day for the Nones
8th to 14th days of the month: 7 days before the Ides
15th day of the month: 1 day for the Ides
16th to 31st days of the month: 16 days before the Kalends of the next month
In short months (29 daysJanuary, April, June, August (Sextilis), September, November and
December), the days were divided into:
1st day of the month: 1 day for the Kalends of the month
14th to 29th days of the month: 16 days before the Kalends of the next month
In ordinary years, the days in February (28 days) were divided into:
1st day of the month: 1 day for the Kalends of February
14th to 28th days of the month: 15 days before the Kalends of March
In intercalary years, the days in February (23 days) were divided into:
1st day of the month: 1 day for the Kalends of February
14th day onwards: counting down to a festival (see below) or to the Kalends of the intercalary
month
The days of the intercalary month inserted in intercalary years (27 days) were divided into:
1st day of the intercalary month: 1 day for the Kalends of the intercalary month
2nd to 4th days of the intercalary month: 3 days before the Nones
5th day of the intercalary month: 1 day for the Nones
6th to 12th days of the intercalary month: 7 days before the Ides
13th day of the intercalary month: 1 day for the Ides
14th day onwards: counting down to the Kalends of March
Some dates were also sometimes known by the name of a festival that occurred on them, or shortly
afterwards. Examples of such dates are recorded for the Feralia, Quirinalia, and the Terminalia, though not
yet for the Lupercalia. The known examples of such dates are all after the Ides of February, which suggests
they are connected with resolving an ambiguity that could arise in intercalary years: dates of the form a.d.
[N] Kal. Mart. were dates in late February in regular years, but were a month later in intercalary years.
However, it is much debated whether there was a fixed rule for using festival-based dates. It has been
variously proposed that a date like a.d. X Terminalia (known from an inscription in 94 BC) implied that its
year 'was', 'was not', or 'might have been' intercalary.
When Julius Caesar added days to some of the months, he added them to the end of the month, so as not to
disturb the dates of festivals in those months. This increased the count of all days after the Ides in those
months, and had some odd effects. For example, the emperor Augustus was born in 63 BC on the 23rd day
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of September. In the pre-Julian calendar, this is seven days before the Kalends of October (or, in Roman
style, counting inclusively, a.d. VIII Kal. Oct.), but in the Julian calendar, it is eight days (a.d. IX Kal. Oct.).
Because of this ambiguity, his birthday was sometimes celebrated on both dates. See discussion in Julian
calendar.
Nundinal cycle
The Romans of the Republic, like the Etruscans, used a "market
week" of eight days, marked as A to H in the calendar. A nundinum
was the market day; etymologically, the word is related to novem,
"nine", because the Roman system of counting was inclusive. The
market "week" is the nundinal cycle. Since the length of the year was
not a multiple of eight days, the letter for the market day (known as a
"nundinal letter") changed every year. For example, if the letter for
market days in some year was A and the year was 355 days long,
then the letter for the next year would be F.
A fragment of the Fasti Praenestini
The nundinal cycle formed one rhythm of day-to-day Roman life; the
for the month of April (Aprilis),
market day was the day when country people would come to the city,
showing the nundinal letters on the
and the day when city people would buy their eight days' worth of
left edge
groceries. For this reason, a law was passed in 287 BC (the Lex
Hortensia) that forbade the holding of meetings of the comitia (for
example to hold elections) on market days, but permitted the holding of legal actions. In the late republic, a
superstition arose that it was unlucky to start the year with a market day (i.e., for the market day to fall on 1
January, with a letter A), and the pontiffs, who regulated the calendar, took steps to avoid it.
Because the nundinal cycle was absolutely fixed at eight days under the Republic, information about the
dates of market days is one of the most important tools used for working out the Julian equivalent of a
Roman date in the pre-Julian calendar. In the early Empire, the Roman market day was occasionally
changed. The details of this are not clear, but one likely explanation put forward is that it would be moved
by one day if it fell on the same day as the festival of Regifugium, an event that could occur at intervals of
three years. The reason for this movement has not been explained.
The nundinal cycle was eventually replaced by the modern seven-day week, which first came into use in
Italy during the early imperial period,[20] after the Julian calendar had come into effect in 45 BC. The system
of nundinal letters was also adapted for the week. (See dominical letter.) For a while, the week and the
nundinal cycle coexisted, but by the time the week was officially adopted by Constantine in AD 321, the
nundinal cycle had fallen out of use. For further information on the week, see week and days of the week.
Character of the day

Each day of the Roman calendar was marked on the fasti with a letter that designated its religious and legal
character. These were:[21]
F (fastus), days when it was legal to initiate action in the courts of civil law (dies fasti);
C (comitialis), a day on which the Roman people could hold assemblies (dies comitalis);
N (nefastus), when these political activities and the administration of justice were prohibited (dies
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nefasti);
NP of elusive meaning, but marking feriae, public holidays (thought by some to mean nefastus priore,
"unlawful before noon", along with FP, fastus priore, "lawful before noon");
QRCF (perhaps for quando rex comitiavit fas,[22] "Permissible, when the king has entered the
comitium"), a day when it was religiously permissible for the rex (probably the priest known as the rex
sacrorum) to call for an assembly;[23]
EN (endotercissus, an archaic form of intercissus, "cut in half"), for days that were nefasti in the
morning, when sacrifices were being prepared, as well as in the evening, while sacrifices were being
offered, but were fasti in the middle of the day.
Years
The calendar year originally began on 1 March, as is shown by the
names of the six months following June (Quintilis = fifth month,
Sextilis = sixth month, September = seventh month, etc.). It is not
known when the start of the calendar year was changed to 1 January.
Ancient authors attributed it to Numa Pompilius. Varro states that,
according to M. Fulvius Nobilior (consul in 189 BC), who had
composed a commentary on a fasti preserved in the temple of Hercules
Musarum, January was named after Janus because the god faced both
ways, which implies the calendar year started in January in his time,
before the consular year started beginning on 1 January in 153 BC. A
surviving calendar from the late Republic proves the calendar year
started in January before the Julian reform.
How years were identified during the Roman monarchy is not known.
Fragment of an imperial-age
During the Roman Republic, years were named after the consuls, who
consular fasti, Museo Epigrafico,
were elected annually (see List of Republican Roman Consuls). Thus,
Rome
the name of the year identified a consular term of office, not a calendar
year. For example, 205 BC was "The year of the consulship of Publius
Cornelius Scipio Africanus and Publius Licinius Crassus", who took office on 15 March of that year, and
their consular year ran until 14 March 204 BC. Lists of consuls were maintained in the fasti.
The first day of the consular term changed several times during Roman history. The Senate changed it to 1
January in 153 BC in order to allow consul Quintus Fulvius Nobilior to attack the city of Segeda (in Aragon,
Spain) during the Celtiberian Wars.[24] Before then, it was 15 March. Earlier changes are a little less certain.
There is good reason to believe it was 1 May for most of the third century BC, until 222 BC. Livy mentions
earlier consular years starting on 1 Sextilis (August), 15 May, 15 December, 1 October and 1 Quintilis
(July).
In the later Republic, historians and scholars began to count years from the founding of the city of Rome.
Different scholars used different dates for this event. The date most widely used today is that calculated by
Varro, 753 BC, but other systems varied by up to several decades. Dates given by this method are numbered
ab urbe condita (meaning "from the founding of the city", and abbreviated AUC), and correspond to
consular years. When reading ancient works using AUC dates, care must be taken to determine the epoch
used by the author before translating the date into a Julian year.
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In parts of the Roman empire, it was common to date by the provincial year (anno prouinciarium, A.PP.). In
Roman Africa, year 1 was AD 39; in Hispania it was 38. Thus, to arrive at AD dates for Africa and Spain it
is necessary to add 39 and 38, respectively, to the provincial year. The Spanish provincial year was the basis
of the Spanish era, the dating system common throughout Spain during the Middle Ages.[25]
Extant fasti
A considerable number of inscribed calendars, or fasti, have been
discovered. The Praenestine calendar (Fasti praenestini), discovered
in 1770, arranged by the famous grammarian Verrius Flaccus,
contains the months of January, March, April, and December, and a
portion of February. The tablets give an account of festivals, and also
of the triumphs of Augustus and Tiberius. There are still two
complete calendars in existence, an official list by Philocalus (354),
and a Christian version of the official calendar, made by Polemius
Silvius (448).
Converting pre-Julian dates
A section of the Fasti Praenestini,

with the entry on the "Feast of
Robigo" (bottom right).
The fact that the modern world uses the same month names as the
Romans can lead to an erroneous assumption that a Roman date occurred on the same Julian date as its
modern equivalent. Even early Julian dates, before the leap year cycle was stabilised, are not quite what they
appear to be. For example, Macrobius says 45 BC was not a leap year.
Finding the exact Julian equivalent of a pre-Julian date is complex. As there exists an essentially complete
list of the consuls, a Julian year can be found to correspond to the pre-Julian year.
However, the sources rarely reveal which years were regular, which were intercalary, and how long an
intercalary year was. Nevertheless, the pre-Julian calendar could be substantially out of alignment with the
Julian calendar. Two precise astronomical synchronisms given by Livy show that in 168 BC, the two
calendars were misaligned by more than two months, and in 190 BC, they were four months out of
alignment.
A number of other clues are available to reconstruct the Julian equivalent of pre-Julian dates. First, the
precise Julian date for the start of the Julian calendar is known, although some uncertainty occurs even about
that. Detailed sources for the previous decade or so are found, mostly in the letters and speeches of Cicero.
Combining these with what is known about how the calendar worked, especially the nundinal cycle, an
accurate conversion of Roman dates after 58 BC relative to the start of the Julian calendar can be performed.
The histories of Livy give exact Roman dates for two eclipses in 190 BC and 168 BC, and a few loose
synchronisms to dates in other calendars provide rough (and sometimes exact) solutions for the intervening
period. Before 190 BC, the alignment between the Roman and Julian years is determined by clues such as
the dates of harvests mentioned in the sources.
Combining these sources of data, an estimate can be computed for approximate Julian equivalents of Roman
dates back to the start of the First Punic War in 264 BC. However, while there are enough data to make such
reconstructions, the number of years before 45 BC for which pre-Julian Roman dates can be converted to
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Julian dates with certainty is very small, and several different reconstructions of the pre-Julian calendar are
possible. A detailed reconstruction giving conversions from pre-Julian dates into Julian dates is available.[26]
See also
Ab urbe condita
Ancient Rome
General Roman calendar (includes calendar of Roman Catholic saints)
Gregorian calendar
Julian calendar
Roman festivals
Notes
1. According to Livy, Numa's calendar was lunisolar with lunar months and several intercalary months spread over
nineteen years so that the Sun returned in the twentieth year to the same position it had in the first year. (Livy,
History of Rome (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed-new?id=Liv1His&tag=public&images=images/m
odeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed) 1.19) (William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
(London: 1875) "Calendarium (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Calendar
ium.html)", Year of Numa)
2. This month name has also been attested as Quinctilis; see, for example, Bonnie Blackburn and Leofranc HolfordStrevens, The Oxford companion to the year, Oxford University Press, 1999, page 669.
3. Macrobius, Saturnalia, tr. Percival Vaughan Davies (New York: Columbia University Press, 1969), book I, chapters
1213, pp. 8995.
4. Hewitt Key, Thomas (1875). quoted in A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, auth: William Smith. London:
John Murray. pp. 223233. "With regard to the length of the months, Censorinus, Macrobius, and Solinus agree in
ascribing thirty-one days to four of them, called pleni menses; thirty to the rest called cavi menses."
5. Theodor Mommsen, History of Rome, Book I (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10701) chapter 14.
6. Plutarch, Life of Numa (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Numa*.html#Romulan_
year) chapter 18.
7. Ovid, Fasti (http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/Latin/OvidFastiBkTwo.htm), tr. A. S. Kline (2004), Book II
(February), last eight lines of introduction.
8. Fowler, 1899, p. 5.
9. Lanfranchi, Thibaud (3 October 2013). " propos de la carrire de Cn. Flavius". Mlanges de lcole franaise de
Rome. Antiquit (125-1). doi:10.4000/mefra.1322.
10. Rotondi, 1912, p. 441
11. Macrobius, Saturnalia, 1.12
12. Censorinus, The Natal Day, 20.28, tr. William Maude, New York 1900, available at [1] (http://elfinspell.com/Classic
alTexts/Maude/Censorinus/DeDieNatale-Part2.html).
13. Macrobius, Saturnalia, 1.13 tr. Percival Vaughan Davies, New York 1969, Latin text at [2] (http://penelope.uchicago.
edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Macrobius/Saturnalia/1*.html#13).
14. Livy 45.44.3.
15. Livy 43.11.13.
16. Varro, On the Latin language, 6.13, tr. Roland Kent, London 1938, available at [3] (http://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus-d
ata/L333.pdf).
17. Michels, 1967.
18. Varro, Marcus Terentius (1938). "VI.27". De lingua latina [On the Latin Language]. Loeb Classical Library (in Latin
and English) I. Translated by Roland Grubb Kent. pp. 198201. At the Internet Archive. kalo or calo is a form of the
verb calare, meaning "to announce solemnly", "to call out"; see Harper, Douglas. "calendar". Online Etymology
Dictionary. calare (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059:entry=calo1). Charlton
T. Lewis and Charles Short. A Latin Dictionary on Perseus Project. See also Rpke, Jrg (2011). The Roman
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26.
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Calendar from Numa to Constantine: Time, History, and the Fasti. Translated by David M.B. Richardson. John
Wiley & Sons. pp. 2425. At Google Books.
Syntax note: The Romans often inserted a phrase between a preposition and its noun, and here. a.d. III Kal. Nov.
(ante diem tertium Kalendas Novembres), ante governs Kalendas, and the literal meaning is 'on the third day' [diem
tertium accusative of time] 'before the November kalends' [the month name is an adjective in Latin]. In late Latin, the
'a.d.' was sometimes dropped in favor of an ablative construction.
Brind'Amour, 1983, p. 256275
Unless otherwise noted, the explanations of the following abbreviations are from H. H. Scullard, Festivals and
Ceremonies of the Roman Republic (Cornell University Press, 1981), pp. 4445.
On the basis of the Fasti Viae Lanza, which gives Q. Rex C. F.
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Fasti (WileyBlackwell, 2011), pp. 2627.
Francisco Burillo, Segeda and Rome. The historical development of a Celtiberian city-state (http://www.segeda.net/b
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Ralph W. Mathieson, People, Personal Expression, and Social Relations in Late Antiquity, vol. 2 (University of
Michigan, 2003), pp. 1415.
Roman Dates (http://www.tyndalehouse.com/Egypt/ptolemies/chron/roman/chron_rom_intro_fr.htm)
References
Brind'Amour, P. Le Calendrier romain: Recherches chronologiques (Ottawa, 1983).
Fowler, W. Warde. The Roman festivals of the period of the Republic; an introduction to the study of
the religion of the Romans (London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1899)
Macrobius, Saturnalia (online) (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Macrobius/Satur
nalia/1*.html).
Michels, A. K. The Calendar of the Roman Republic (Princeton, 1967).
Rotondi, Giovanni. Leges publicae populi romani (Milan: Societ editrice libraria, 1912).
Rpke, J. The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine: Time, History and the Fasti (trans. D. M.
B. Richardson) (Wiley, 2011). ISBN 978-0-470-65508-5 (print) 9781444396539 (online) (http://online
library.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444396539).
Further reading
Bickerman, E. J. Chronology of the Ancient World. (London: Thames & Hudson, 1969, rev. ed. 1980).
Feeney, Denis C. Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2007 (hardcover, ISBN 0-520-25119-9).
Richards, E. G. Mapping Time. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-850413-6.
External links
Early Roman Calendar History (http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-roman.html)
James Grout: The Roman Calendar, part of the Encyclopdia Romana (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/
~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/calendar/romancalendar.html)
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n_rom_intro_fr.htm)
Smith's Dictionary article (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*
/Calendarium.html)
Plutarch: excerpt from Numa Pompilius (http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/year-text-Plutarch.htm
l)
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