ante diem ix kalendas octobres

rites in honour of Latona at the Theatre of Marcellus

Mercatus -- those cupboards must have been really empty!

484 B.C. -- Birth of Euripides (?)

480 B.C. -- Athenian naval forces under Themistocles defeat Xerxes' Persian force in the narrows of Salamis (one reckoning)

63 B.C. -- birth of Octavius, the future emperor Augustus

25 B.C. -- dedication of the Temple of Neptune (and associated rites thereafter)

23 B.C. -- restoration of the temple of Apollo in the Campus Martius (and associated rites thereafter)

117 A.D. -- martyrdom of Thecla