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    The nundinae (/nənˈdɪnaɪ/, /-niː/), sometimes anglicized to nundines, were the market days of the ancient Roman calendar, forming a kind of weekend including...
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    duties, and presided over the sacrifice of a ram to Jupiter on each of the nundinae, the "market" days of a calendar cycle, comparable to a week. The couple...
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    from birth for a male and the eighth for a female. The recurrence of the nundinae was also considered a dies festus and as such nefas by some Roman scholars...
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    into an eight-day cycle called the nundinae, with every eighth day being a market day. Independent of the nundinae, astrologers kept a seven-day cycle...
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  • calendars to indicate each day's position in the eight-day market week (nundinae). The word is derived from the number nine due to their practice of inclusive...
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  • code for Nuneaton railway station, UK Nun, a Latin abbreviation for the nundinae market days Naruto: Ultimate Ninja, a series of anime fighting games Naruto:...
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    H to indicate its place within the nundinal cycle of market days. The nundinae were the market days which formed a kind of weekend in Rome, Italy, and...
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    p. 108. ISBN 978-0-521-52349-3. Black's Law Dictionary Struck (2009), "Nundinae". Brown, Chris (19 April 2013). "Twin Town Crier helps keep the beer flowing"...
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  • latest. In Ancient Rome (753 BC–476 AD), every eight days there was a nundinae. It was a market day, during which children were exempted from school and...
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    and market scenes Market Scene by Pieter Aertsen, 1550 Rustic Market (Nundinae Rusticorum) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1555–56 Fish Market by Joachim...
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    flaminica was essential in the performance of certain rituals. On each of the nundinae, she sacrificed a ram to Juno Regina in the Curia Calabra.(i, 16) The flaminica...
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    (New York: Teachers College Press, 1966).[page needed] Struck (2009), "Nundinae". Yun Lee Too, Education in Greek and Roman antiquity (Boston: Brill, 2001)...
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    performing animal sacrifice; she offered a ram to Jupiter on each of the nundinae, the eight-day Roman cycle comparable to a week. The couple were not permitted...
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  • California Newhaven Town railway station, a railway station in Sussex, England Nundinae, in Latin inscriptions Nventa Biopharmaceuticals Corporation (TSX: NVN)...
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  • published 1995 in German), p. 6. Van L. Johnson, "The Superstitions about the Nundinae," American Journal of Philology 80.2 (1959), p. 138. Salzman, On Roman...
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    Maleciabrudes Monitor O. M. (leader, warner) Nundinarius (patron of the nundinae) Obsequens (agreeable, complacent) Opitulator or Opitulus (reliever) Optimus...
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    sunset to sunset for the Greeks) the weeks, the nones of eight full days (nundinae) and market day on the ninth the months, based on the lunar cycle, with...
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    which provided that a rogatio (a proposed law) must be promulgated three nundinae, or market-intervals, before the people voted on it. It also confirmed...
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    secession. The convening of the assembly was announced three market-days (nundinae) in advance. The viatores (messengers) were sent "to inform those in country...
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    Byzacena at gcatholic.org. Elizabeth Fentress, Where were North African Nundinae held. Charles Tissot, Rapport sur la mission en Tunisie de M. Julien Poinssot...
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  • publicly) a trinundium (either three Roman eight-day weeks or tertiae nundinae, on the third market-day, 17 days) before they were proposed to the comitia...
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  • (twenty-five copies printed). Nundinæ Floraliæ. Fugitive Papers. May Day, May Games, &c., octavo, Dover, 1843 (twelve copies printed). Nundinæ Literariæ. Fugitive...
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  • previous laws. Another law, passed about the same time, which declared the nundinae (market days) to be dies fasti (days on which legal business might be transacted)...
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  • mean either three Roman eight-day weeks (that is, 24 days) or tertiae nundinae, on the third market-day (17 days). The second provision of the lex Caecilia...
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  • with the intercalation, the appointment of the Plebeian Tribunes, the nundinae (market and feast days of the old Roman calendar), etc. Because some quotations...
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  • Language Responsibilities Publishing history 1564–1749 Novorum Librorum quos Nundinae Atumnales, Francoforti Anno 1564 celebratae, Venales Exhibuerent (Frankfort...
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