Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- The Licinian Rogations
- The new curule Dignities of the year 384
- Internal History down to the complete establishment of the plebeian Consulship
- On the Uncial Rate of Interest
- History of the Wars from 384 to 406
- Rome in Alliance with Latium
- The earliest Constitution of the manipular Legion
- The first Samnite War
- The Latin War
- The Laws of the Dictator Q. Publilius
- Internal History down to the Caudine Peace
- Alexander of Epirus
- Forein Relations down to the second Samnite War
- The second Samnite War
- Relations between Rome and the Nations bordering on Samnium after the Peace
- The Etruscan Wars down to the beginning of the third Samnite War
- Internal History from the Caudine Peace down to the third Samnite War
- Cn. Flavius
- The Censorship of Q. Fabius and P. Decius
- The Ogulnian Law
- Various Occurrences of the same Period
- The third Samnite War and the Others of the same Period
- Internal History from the Beginning of the second Samnite War down to the Lucanian
- Miscellaneous Occurrences of the same Period
- The Etruscan and Gallic War
- The Lucanian, Bruttian, fourth Samnite, and Tarentine Wars
- Epirus and Pyrrhus
- The Roman and Macedonian Tactics
- The War with Pyrrhus
- Entire Subjugation of Italy, and the Political Rights of the Italian Allies
- Internal History and Miscellaneous Occurrences of the Period from the Lucanian down to the first Punic War
- The first Punic War
- Index
- ERRATA
Cn. Flavius
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- The Licinian Rogations
- The new curule Dignities of the year 384
- Internal History down to the complete establishment of the plebeian Consulship
- On the Uncial Rate of Interest
- History of the Wars from 384 to 406
- Rome in Alliance with Latium
- The earliest Constitution of the manipular Legion
- The first Samnite War
- The Latin War
- The Laws of the Dictator Q. Publilius
- Internal History down to the Caudine Peace
- Alexander of Epirus
- Forein Relations down to the second Samnite War
- The second Samnite War
- Relations between Rome and the Nations bordering on Samnium after the Peace
- The Etruscan Wars down to the beginning of the third Samnite War
- Internal History from the Caudine Peace down to the third Samnite War
- Cn. Flavius
- The Censorship of Q. Fabius and P. Decius
- The Ogulnian Law
- Various Occurrences of the same Period
- The third Samnite War and the Others of the same Period
- Internal History from the Beginning of the second Samnite War down to the Lucanian
- Miscellaneous Occurrences of the same Period
- The Etruscan and Gallic War
- The Lucanian, Bruttian, fourth Samnite, and Tarentine Wars
- Epirus and Pyrrhus
- The Roman and Macedonian Tactics
- The War with Pyrrhus
- Entire Subjugation of Italy, and the Political Rights of the Italian Allies
- Internal History and Miscellaneous Occurrences of the Period from the Lucanian down to the first Punic War
- The first Punic War
- Index
- ERRATA
Summary
So long as the Etruscan calendar remained in use in civil life also, the nundines, on which the country people came to the city, were at the same time the days, on which the kings gave judges and administered justice, and on which business could be transacted before them according to the law. These nundines were thirty-eight in number, which always fell on the same day of the month every year. But when the twelve months' year was introduced, and it was at the same time found advisable to separate the nundines from the court-days, the number of the latter, the dies fasti, remained unaltered, thirty-eight: which is by the way a clear proof, that what I have said respecting the civil use of the ten months' year is not a mere fancy. But these thirty-eight days were now distributed among all the twelve months, without any perceptible rule being observed in the distribution: and as business increast, justice was administered on the comitial days also, when no comitia were held, and the pontiffs granted for the transaction of business even some hours of many dies nefasti, before the religious obstacle commenced or when it was over. It was therefore now a matter of importance to know, in order that time might not be lost by coming for no purpose, nor the proper times be neglected, which days were entirely nefasti and which only half and during what hours: and this every one was obliged to learn from the pontiffs as often as he wanted to know it.
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- The History of Rome , pp. 314 - 319Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1842