ante diem x kalendas januarias
Saturnalia continues (day 7)
Larentalia -- a funerary ritual at the purported tomb of Acca Larentia, who was the wife of the shepherd who found Romulus and Remus being suckled by the she-wolf.
rites in honour of the Tempestates, which seems to be a Latin translation of the Punic divinity 'Ba'al of the skies' (i.e. this was a divinity taken over by the Romans, probably during the Punic Wars)
179 B.C. -- dedication of a Temple of Diana and A Temple of Juno Regina in the Campus Martius by M. Aemilius Lepidus
250 A.D. -- martyrdom of the Ten Martyrs of Crete
Saturnalia continues (day 7)
Larentalia -- a funerary ritual at the purported tomb of Acca Larentia, who was the wife of the shepherd who found Romulus and Remus being suckled by the she-wolf.
rites in honour of the Tempestates, which seems to be a Latin translation of the Punic divinity 'Ba'al of the skies' (i.e. this was a divinity taken over by the Romans, probably during the Punic Wars)
179 B.C. -- dedication of a Temple of Diana and A Temple of Juno Regina in the Campus Martius by M. Aemilius Lepidus
250 A.D. -- martyrdom of the Ten Martyrs of Crete