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INTRODUCTION of Hellenic Alphabets into Italy
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I.XII.Nature of the Roman Gods 9.

From the same cause all the festival-days are odd, as well those recurring every month (-kalendae- on the 1st.

-nonae- on the 5th or 7th, -idus- on the 13th or 15th), as also, with but two exceptions, those of the 45 annual festivals mentioned above (xii.

Oldest Table Of Roman Festivals).

This is carried so far, that in the case of festivals of several days the intervening even days were dropped out, and so, for example, that of Carmentis was celebrated on Jan.
11, 15, that of the Grove-festival (-Lucaria-) on July 19, 21, and that of the Ghosts-festival on May 9, 11, and 13.
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