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5764 heshvan 02     1996 teqemt 17    1720 babah 17     1424 ramadan 02
1925 kartika 06   1382 aban 06    212 brumaire 07    160 'ilm 13
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12 baktun / 19 katun / 10 tun / 12 winal / 18 k'in // 03 - edznab // 06 - dzak / g6         
12baktun 19katun 10tun 12winal 18k'in   03 edznab   06 dzak   G6
Julian 2003 Oct 15 — IDVS OCTOBRIS MMDCCLVI A.V.C
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     This day was sacred to Jupiter and bridged the festivals of the Meditranalia and the Armilustrium. Sacrifices made today at the temples would lead to feasting in the streets to which the public and the poor were all invited. The celebrations would consist of games, music, dance and much drinking of wine. Horse races were held today in special honor of Jupiter, and in the two-horse chariot race on the Campus Martius the right side horse of the winning chariot was sacrificed to Mars. In a curious ceremony, a mock fight was staged over the head of the horse by the people on the Palatine (on the Subura) and those on the Esquiline (on the Sacra Via), with the winner hanging it on their respective tower.

      The great Roman poet Publius Vergilius Maro was born on this day, the Ides of October, in DCCLXXXVI A.V.C. (15 October 70 BC). Virgil would write The Aeneid, an epic account of the travels of the refugees from Troy as they settled successively in Carthage and in Latium, giving rise several generations later to the line of Romulus, the founder of Rome. He also wrote The Eclogues, and The Georgics. Virgil died ANTE DIEM XI CALENDAS OCTVBRIS DCCXXXV A.V.C. (21 September 19 BC)
     VIRGIL ONLINE: (in Latin): The Aeneid, The Eclogues, The Georgics — (in English translations): The Aeneid, The Aeneid, The Aeneid, The Eclogues, The Georgics
— Dante Alighieri would make Virgil his companion into the afterworld in La Divina Commedia.
Virgil in paintings: by Ingres: Virgil Reading Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia (1815) _ by Signorelli Virgil (1500) & Dante and Virgil Entering Purgatory (1500) _ by Bouguereau Dante and Virgil in Hell _ by Blake Dante and Virgil at the Gates of Hell & Dante and Virgil Approaching the Angel Who Guards the Entrance of Purgatory (1825) & The Devils, with Dante and Virgil by the Side of the Pool (1825) & Virgil Girding Dante's Brow with a Rush (1825).

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