Festus: De verborum significatione

De verborum significatione quae supersunt cum Pauli epitome;
by Festus, Sextus Pompeius, 2nd cent; Paul, the Deacon, ca. 720-799?; Verrius Flaccus, Marcus; Müller, Karl Otfried, 1797-1840

https://archive.org/details/deverborumsigni00fest

SILIUS ITALICUS, Punica | Loeb Classical Library

SILIUS ITALICUS, Punica | Loeb Classical Library: ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?his journey over the earth, and Mars betook himself to the clouds and the sky; and darkness confined the weary armies to their camps.Cynthia with downward course was ending the night, while her broth...

JOURNAL ARTICLE - IL PLENILUNIO DELLA BATTAGLIA DEL TICINO IN SILIO ITALICO
Patrizio Domenicucci - Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica
Nuova serie, Vol. 102, No. 3 (2012), pp. 165-182 (18 pages)
Published by: Fabrizio Serra Editore
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24645102
Abstract
In the description of sunrise in the day after the Battle of Ticinus, Silius Italicus refers to the full moon (4, 480 ff.). For this account Silius probably uses not only literary patterns, but also a lost annalistic source, that should have reported the astronomical datum of the full moon. This datum allows to fix the date of the battle on November, 28th, 218 B.C.


Le Puniche di C. Silio Italico
Gaius Silius Italicus
V. Maisner, 1878 - 560 pages

The eclipses in Livy's Ab Urbe Condita

The eclipses in Livy's Ab Urbe Condita: Titus Livius (Livy) is mentioning some eclipses in his monumental history of Rome, entitled Ab Urbe Condita Libri. For two of these eclipses, Livy is also reporting the dates. One occurred during the Ludi Apollinares, in the year of the consulship of Lucius Cornelius. Livy dated the eclipse 11 Quintilis. Astronomy dated it 14 March 190 BC (Julian date). The other eclipse is that at the time of the Pydna battle and it is the lunar eclipse of 21 June 168 BC (Julian date).  Livy tells that it occurred during the night between 3 and 4 September. The differences between astronomical and historical dates are due to the manner the lunisolar Roman republican calendar was managed in that period by the college of Roman pontifices. Here we discuss the eclipses reported by Livy to point out the problems of the Roman chronology, when it is involving the republican calendar.

Augusto ed i culti non romani

Da Svetonio

 Vita dei Cesari II (Augusto), 93

GAIO SVETONIO TRANQUILLO

TESTO IN LINGUA ORIGINALE

[93] Peregrinarum caerimoniarum sicut veteres ac praeceptas reverentissime coluit, ita ceteras contemptui habuit. Namque Athenis initiatus, cum postea Romae pro tribunali de privilegio sacerdotum Atticae Cereris cognosceret et quaedam secretiora proponerentur, dimisso consilio et corona circum stantium solus audiit disceptantes. At contra non modo in peragranda Aegypto paulo deflectere ad visendum Apin supersedit, sed et Gaium nepotem, quod Iudaeam praetervehens apud Hierosolyma non supplicasset, conlaudavit.

TRADUZIONE

93 Ebbe il massimo rispetto per i culti stranieri, ma solo per quelli che erano stati consacrati dal tempo, tutti gli altri li disprezzò. Così, ricevuta l'iniziazione ad Atene, quando in seguito a Roma, davanti al suo tribunale si trattò di una questione relativa al privilegio dei sacerdoti della Cerere Ateniese e si cominciò a svelare alcuni segreti, egli congedò il consiglio dei giudici e tutti gli assistenti e da solo seguì il dibattito. Al contrario, quando visitò l'Egitto si guardò bene dal fare la minima deviazione per andare a vedere il bue Api, e lodò vivamente suo nipote Gaio perché, attraversando la Giudea non era andato ad offrire sacrifici a Gerusalemme

The first Calends of the Julian Calendar

The first Calends of the Julian Calendar: This work is proposing an archaeo-astronomical study of the Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar proposed by Julius Caesar. The calendar was inaugurated on the first of January, 45 BC (historical date). Using astronomical software CalSKY,  we can investigate if the first day of this new system of organizing the days was corresponding to a Calenda, that is, to a day of new moon. It was on January 2, 45 BC (Julian day). We can also see how the new calendar adapted itself to the following phases of the moon.

Il tempo ha paura delle Piramidi, ma le Piramidi hanno paura di ... Giacobbo

Camere segrete, troni di ferro e proto-geroglifici: i misteri della Piramide di Cheope secondo Freedom (bufale eGGizie*) Pubblicato il gennaio 3, 2019 da mattiamancini

https://djedmedu.wordpress.com/2019/01/03/camere-segrete-troni-di-ferro-e-proto-geroglifici-i-misteri-della-piramide-di-cheope-secondo-freedom-bufale-eggizie/

Un interessante post su un servizio del programma Freedom di Roberto Giacobbo.