School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . )anyingwoodcut shows a man ploughing in histunic This term applied to the warrior ex-pressed the absence of some part of hisarmour. Hence the light-armed werecalled yvjxvr^Tes. [Arma.] NUMMULARII or NUMULARII.[Mrnsarii.] NUMMUSor NUMUS. [Sestertius.] NUNDINAE is derived by all theancient writers from novem and dies, so thatit literally signifies the ninth day. Everyeighth day, according to our mode of speak- 2G2 OCREA. ing, was a nundinae, and there were thusalways seven ordinary days between twonundinae. The Rom^ns in their peculiarmod
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . )anyingwoodcut shows a man ploughing in histunic This term applied to the warrior ex-pressed the absence of some part of hisarmour. Hence the light-armed werecalled yvjxvr^Tes. [Arma.] NUMMULARII or NUMULARII.[Mrnsarii.] NUMMUSor NUMUS. [Sestertius.] NUNDINAE is derived by all theancient writers from novem and dies, so thatit literally signifies the ninth day. Everyeighth day, according to our mode of speak- 2G2 OCREA. ing, was a nundinae, and there were thusalways seven ordinary days between twonundinae. The Rom^ns in their peculiarmode of reckoning added these two nun-dinae to the seven ordinary days, and con-sequently said that the nundinae recurredevery ninth day, and called them nundinae,as it were novemdhiae. The number of nundinae in the ancientyear of ten months was S8. They wereoriginally market-days for the country folk,on which they came to Rome to sell theproduce of theJr labour, and on which theking settled the legal disputes among , therefore, we read that the nvm-dinae were feriae, or dies nefasti, and thatno
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