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2003 Sep 26 is Julian 2452909
a prime number
5763 elul 29 1996
maskaram 15 1720 tut 15 1424 rajab 30
1925 asvina 04 1382 mehr 04 212 vendémiaire
05 160 'izzat 19
China-Republic - 92 - 09 - 01 // 78 - 20 / gui~wei Sheep - 09 -
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kimi // 14 - chen / g1
Julian 2003 Sep 13— LVDI
ROMANI IX IDVS SEPTEMBRIS MMDCCLVI A.V.C
Explanation
of various calendars
. The Ides of September are
sacred to the Capitoline triad — Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, for whom
temples were dedicated in CCXLV A.V.C. (509 BC). Juno is the wife of Jupiter
and the deified queen of heaven and womankind. She protects the growth and
well-being, as well as the fertility, of every woman. Minerva is considered
to be the sublime female abstraction of thought or mind. The name Minerva
is derived from the word memini (to remember). Her realm is that of wisdom,
education, industriousness, commerce, and the various arts that women practice,
including sewing arts and music. Minerva is considered to be the Roman equivalent
of Athena, but not as a warlike personification.
This is one of the days on which the salt cakes,
the mola salsa, were used as part of the sacrificial meal.
This is the only day of the month in which sacrificing
and feasting would occur in public.
The emperor Titus died this day in DCCCXXXIV
A.V.C. (81 AD) in Aquae Cutiliae. He was 41. His last words were the enigmatic
“I have made but one mistake.” Having reigned most excellently,
it was probably the one that killed him — he apparently died from malaria.