On the Kalends 1 January 49, Marcellus and Lentulus entered office, and were presented at once with letters from Caesar, the tenor of which was claimed to be a declaration of war : Caesar was to resign his command or be declared a public enemy.
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Among explanations for the month's name was that it derived from " Magna Mater ", a title also for Cybele ), Ops ( " Abundance, Resources " ), and Carna, the goddess of the Bean Kalends on June 1.
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The "'Veneralia "'was an ancient Roman festival celebrated April 1 ( the Kalends of " Aprilis " ) in honor of Venus the changer of hearts " ) and Fortuna Virilis ( " Manly " or " Virile Fortune " ).
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The Senate ordinarily met in the " Curia Julia ", usually on either the Kalends ( the first day of the month ), or the Ides ( around the fifteenth day of the month ), although scheduled meetings occurred more frequently in September and October.
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Sulla's army took Athens on the Kalends of March, in the consulate of Marius and Cinna, February 12 86 BC . The siege of Athens was a long and brutal campaign, Sulla's rough battle hardened legions, veterans of the Social War thoroughly devastated the city.
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The day on which the Fabii perished was forever remembered, as it was the same day that the Gauls defeated the Roman army at the Battle of the Allia in 390 BC . This was the fifteenth day before the kalends of Sextilis, or July 18, according to the modern calendar.
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The city's autumn " foire Saint-Romain " was set to his feast day on the " 10th day of the Kalends of November " ( i . e . 23 October ) around 1090, at the same date as his cult was spread to the whole diocese of Rouen.
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:" To the god Mars Lenus, otherwise known as Ocelus Vellaunus, and to the Imperial " numen ", M . Nonius Romanus, by privilege of the college, dedicated this gift using his own funds during the consulship of Glabrio and Homulo ten days before the kalends of September ."
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"' 1.6 " "'Kalendae Decembres " ( " The Kalends of December " ) In hendecasyllables, this poem describes Statius'attendance at a Saturnalia banquet given by Domitian; he describes the meal, the guests, the female entertainment, and the emperor's largesse.
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H . S . Versnel has argued that adjustments made to the calendar over time caused the Mamuralia to be moved from an original place as the last day of the year ( the day before the Kalends of March ) to the day before the Ides, causing the Equirria on February 27 to be repeated on March 14.
