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certain period, rest from work for the
ruling class (patricians). The
nundinal cycle,
market w****, or 8-day w**** (Latin:
nundinum or internundinum) was...
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before the next year.
These months each had 30 or 31 days and ran for 38
nundinal cycles, each
forming a kind of eight-day w****—nine days
counted inclusively...
- Greswell,
Edward (1854).
Origines kalendariæ italicæ:
nundinal calendars of
ancient Italy,
nundinal calendar of Romulus,
calendar of Numa Pompilius, calendar...
- period, it did not
immediately replace the
older eight-day
nundinal system. The
nundinal system had
probably fallen out of use by the time
Emperor Constantine...
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denoted as day zero. The
ancient Romans traditionally used the eight-day
nundinal cycle, a
market w****, but in the time of
Augustus in the 1st
century AD...
- 8-day
nundinal cycle began to be
displaced by the 7-day w**** in the
first century AD, and
dominical letters began to
appear alongside nundinal letters...
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calendar reforms undertaken by
Marcus Aurelius. Days were also
marked with
nundinal letters in
cycles of A B C D E F G H, to mark the "market w****". December...
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feasts were
probably universal before the
adoption of the lunar-based
nundinal cycle, the
earliest Italian calendars most
likely being observational and...
- used in
Latin (just as the
ninth day was a
return to the same day of a
nundinal cycle, the eight-day w**** of the pre-Christian
Roman calendar). The "eighth...
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centuries AD, the
Roman Empire gradually replaced the eight-day
Roman nundinal cycle with the seven-day w****. The
astrological order of the days was explained...