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Fasti Praenestini -- A Roman Calendar
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I wondered if anyone else would be interested in the English text of the FASTI PRAENESTINI, a fragmentary religious calendar with annotations of great value, compiled by Verrius Flaccus, a freedman and noted scholar, not later than C.E. 20 (Flaccus' death). It is named from being inscribed on the hemicycle at the Forum of the Latin city of Praeneste. 

At least one Internet source (a respectable one, and supported by the epigraphist Attillio Degrassi, who suggests 6-9 C.E. notes that all of the anniversaries of Tiberius after C.E. 10 are in a later script and hence are interpolations. He is referred to in an Oxford Classical Monograph on Ovid's Fasti, which is an unfinished poetic commentary on the Roman calendar) suggests the possibility of a commemoration of Augustus' calendar reform of C.E. 6.

A little more information about the Fasti, and Flaccus, is given here:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/ency...stini.html


English Text (attalus.org is an excellent resource):
http://www.attalus.org/docs/cil/add_8.html

The Latin fragments can be viewed here:
http://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_einzel.php?s...-02,+00017

See also the Fragmenta, which only gives the explanatory notes and not the civic and religious status of otherwise unnoted days:
http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/v..._frag.html
Patrick J. Gray

'' Now. Close your eyes. It's but a short step to the boat, a short pull across the river.''
''And then?''
''And then, I promise you, you'll dream a different story altogether''

From ''I, Claudius'', by J. Pulman after R. Graves.
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