and Tiberius. A sample from the first few days of the Fasti Praenestini (cf. Wallace-
Hadrill 1987, 229 – 30): Augustus’s first assumption ofimperiumin the consulship of
Hirtius and Pansa, and Tiberius’s election as a VIIuir epulonum(7 January); Tiberius’s
dedication of an image ofIustitia Augusta in the consulship of Plancus and Silius (8
January); Augustus’s closing of the gates of Janus in his (fifth) and Appuleius’s con-
sulship (11 January); award of an oaken wreath to Augustus by the Senate for restor-
ing the Republic to the Roman people (13 January); the birthday of M. Antonius, uitio-
sus(14 January); name of “Augustus” conferred in his (seventh) and Agrippa’s (third)
consulship, and dedication of temple of Concordia Augusta by Tiberius in the consul-
ship of Dolabella and Silanus (16 January). By contrast, for the same days in the Fasti
Antiates, we find only the Carmentalia on the eleventh and fifteenth, and “to Juturna”
on the eleventh.
In the first sense, OLDs.v. §§1 and 2; in the second, §4b (including a reference
to Flor. Epit.2.34, sanctius... uisum est nomen Augusti, ut... ipso nomine et titulo con-
secraretur). Cf. Ov. Fast.2.16, referred to below, p. 188.
Institution of Augustalia: Res Gestae11; Tac. Ann.1.15.2; on its revolutionary
import, Taylor and Holland 1952, 140, expressed in a more qualified way in Michels
1967, 141. Interestingly, OLDs.v. fasti§3 lists this Horatian passage under the
“wrong,” i.e., consular, fasti; TLL6.327.12 – 13 correctly has it under the calendrical
fasti(cf. Rüpke 1997, 76 n. 61).
Ovid explains the translingual etymology whereby Venus = Aphrodite = April
at Fast.4.61 – 62.
Cf. Ann.15.74.1 for the renaming of April as Neroneus, and 16.12.3 for the
renaming of May and June as Claudius and Germanicus.
Suet. Tib.26.2.
Dio 57.18.2.
On the development of the honorific “system” in the transition from Republic
to Principate, see Wallace-Hadrill 1990.
Wissowa 1912, 445; Michels 1967, 142; Weinstock 1971, 157, 206 (for Caesar’s
birthday); Fraschetti 1990, 15 – 16; Rüpke 1995b, 393. NPdenotes “days on which feriae
were celebrated at public expense for the benefit of the whole people, by the state”
(Michels 1967, 74), and the ligature itself probably means (dies) nefasti publici(76).
An important prototype is clearly given by the so-called Ludi Victoriae Sul-
lanae, instituted in 81 b.c.e.and running from 26 October to 1 November, but it is sig-
nificant that these were originally called simply Ludi Victoriae, and Sulla’s name was
added later to distinguish his victory games from Caesar’s (20 – 30 July): Degrassi
1963, 526.
94.Phil.2.87; cf. Rüpke 1995b, 391 – 92.
95.Ad Brut.1.15.8 = Shackleton Bailey 1980, 23.8. On Cicero’s facility with “the
language of power,” see Wallace-Hadrill 1990, esp. 166 – 67.
notes to pages 185 – 189