But how should the eighth day before the calends of March now appear in it, since the part is lost from the fourteenth before the calends of March to the eleventh before the calends of May?
Given on the 8th before the calends of September, in the year of the Incarnation 962, first year of the reign of the most pious Otho.
It being the calends of January, the first day of the year, on which the magistrates solemnly entered on their offices, surrounded by their friends.
The office of consul having become vacant, by the sudden death of one of the consuls the day before the calends of January [the 1st Jan.
Another of the same tenor: "If Janiveer Calends be summerly gay, It will be winterly weather till Calends of May.
The 6th of the calends of March in ordinary years was the 24th of February; it was called sexto-kalendas.
The calendswere always the first day of the month.
He died on the eighth of the calends of December [24th Nov.
The calends of March was the festival of married women.
By a miraculous coincidence he was born on the very day on which Romulus founded Rome; that is, the tenth day before the Calends of May.
This battle is said to have been fought on the Calends of March.
It was remarked, too, that whilst he was sacrificing upon the calends of January, the chaplet fell from his head, and upon his consulting the pullets for omens, they flew away.
The number of days of Calends depend upon the number of days in the month, and the day of the month on which the Ides fall.
Ides, so many before the Calends of the next month, the highest numbers being reckoned first.
The eleventh day of the calends of July the fleet reached Darien, the flag-ship arriving four days later, but without cargo.
Having carefully examined the region of Cibao, Columbus returned on the calends of April, the day after Easter, to Isabella; this being the name he had given to the new city.
There being no larger ship at their disposal, both men sailed on a brigantine, the fourth day of the calends of November in the year of grace 1512.
On the calends of September he reached the port he had named San Nicholas, and there repaired his ships, intending to again ravage the cannibal islands and burn the canoes of the natives.
On the seventh day of the calends of October, a Quarequa guide showed him a peak from the summit of which the southern ocean is visible.
While the Court sojourned there the ninth day of the calends of April, messengers sent to the King and Queen informed them that twelve ships returning from the islands had arrived at Cadiz, after a happy voyage.
During this discussion Vasco was joined on the eighth day of the calends of January and the last day of the year 1513, by the men he had left behind with Pochorroso.
From the Court of Spain, the third day of the calends of May, 1494.
They sought the authorisation of the King and towards the calends of December, 1499, they left port.
Between Easter and thecalends of October let them apply themselves to reading from the fourth hour till near the sixth hour.
From the calends of October to the beginning of Lent let them apply themselves to reading until the second hour.
Dated the fifth of the calends of July, in the fourth Consulship of Nero, and Messala.
Dated on the calends of August, in the Consulship of Leo and Savinus.
Dated the tenth of the calends of April, in the Consulship of Aprianus and Capito.
This have I written to you, the day before the ninth of the, calends of September.
Dated the fifth of the calends of April, in the Consulship of Frigius and Bassus.
About the calends of July, the fever which was at first sporadic and particular, began to break forth in some places, perhaps two or three cases in the same city or village.
The Latin holidays detained the consuls and praetors at Rome till the fifth of the calends of May; on which day, having completed the solemnities on the mount, they proceeded to their respective provinces.
Splendid pageants and processions hailed the Calends of May and the Nativity of the Baptist, and marked the civil and ecclesiastical festivities and state solemnities.
On the fifth day of the calends of September, Augustin, the bishop, was very low.
The first day of the month was the calends of that month; whence they reckoned backwards, distinguishing the time by the day before the calends, the second day before the calends, and so on, to the ides of the preceding month.
The Lares being adorned with fresh garlands on the calends (the first) of January, fell down during the preparations for sacrificing to them.
There were some who remarked that the commencement of this fire showed itself on the fourteenth before the calends of July, the day on which the Senones set fire to the captured city.
The custom has been supposed to be derived from the ancient Roman usage of gathering green on the calends of May, with which to decorate the house.
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