NUNDINAL CALENDARS OF ANCIENT ITALY,

NUNDINAL CALENDAR OF ROMULUS,

CALENDAR OF NUMA POMPILIUS,

CALENDAR OF THE DECEMVIRS,

IRREGULAR ROMAN CALENDAR,

AND

JULIAN CORRECTION.

TABLES OF THE ROMAN CALENDAR,

FROM

U.C. 4 OF VARRO B. C. 750 TO U. C. 1108 A. D. 355.

BY

EDWARD GRESWELL, B.D.

FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOLUME II.

OXFORD:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

M.DCCC.LIV.

Clar. Press

31. a. 44.

ORIGINES KALENDARIÆ ITALICE.

ON THE CALENDARS OF ANCIENT ITALY.

DISSERTATION VII.

On the verification of the Roman Calendar, both the Regular and the Irregular, by the cycle of the Nundi

nal day.

CHAPTER I.

SECTION I.-Regularity of the Nundinal cycle among the

WE

Romans.

E had repeated occasion in the course of the first part of the present work to insist on the analogy of the Nundinal cycle of ancient Italy to the Hebdomadal cycle of Scripture; which makes it unnecessary to revert to that topic, except in a general manner. Both these were measures of time communis generis, i. e. in terms of the cycle of day and night or noctidiurnal period of 24 hours. There was little apparent difference between the length of the one, and that of the other. One was of stated recurrence, as much as the other. The Nundinal cycle was as regular as the Hebdomadal. The Nundinal day too possessed a sacred character, from the first; as the seventh day of the Hebdomadal cycle did. The antiquity of the Nundinal cycle indeed could not

Fasti Catholici, i. 501. Diss. vi. ch. v. Cf. 385. Diss. vi. ch. i. sect. i. Cf. 407. Diss vi. ch. ii. sect. i. Introduction, 125. Part ii. ch. iii. sect. iii.