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 I. OXFORD: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. M.DCCC.LIV. Clar. Press 31.α.43. ORIGINES KALENDARIE ITALICÆ. PRELIMINARY ADDRESS. THE following Work, entitled Origines Kalendariæ Italicæ, is a continuation of the Fasti Catholici and Origines Kalendariæ, lately published at the University Press; and yet, as a particular and integral branch of the argument of that work in general, it lays claim to the name of a distinct and independent production. The subject of which it treats, (the Calendars of ancient Italy, beginning with the Nundinal Correction of the Primitive Calendar, and ending with the Julian Correction of the Roman,) is eminently qualified not only to connect it with the general argument of the Origines, which it takes up and prosecutes in a manner peculiar to itself, but to detach it also from every thing of the same kind which has yet preceded it, or may hereafter follow it; and to render it entire and complete in itself. The Calendars of ancient Italy, in the most comprehensive sense of the name, would include the Calendars of the Greek colonies, planted at different times in Italy; the civil Calendars of Magna Græcia, in contradistinction to those of Græcia Proper, and to those of the Greek settlements in any other quarter. Not indeed that even the Calendars of the Greek colonists any where were different in general from those of the mother country, or that either of them at first were distinct from the Primitive Equable Calendar of all mankind; or that the Corrections of this Primitive Calendar |