systematically on their subjects; Adams 2003, esp. 634 – 37, for the Romans’ lack of
interest in imposing their language in Egypt and in the Greek East in general, with
their “view of Greek as a suitable lingua franca in the east” (635).
- Laurence and Smith 1995 – 96, 148.
- B. Anderson 1991, 24 – 26; cf. Zerubavel 2003, 4, for the related phenomenon
of “mnemonic synchronization.” - Beard, North, and Price 1998, 322 – 23; cf. Crawford 1996, 426, especially on
how local Italian calendars were dying away even before the massive diffusion of the
Julian calendar; Dench 2005, 214. - A. Barchiesi (2005b) on this Roman connectivity as a major theme of the
Aeneid(esp. 29 on the role of the calendar). - For the important evidence of the calendar found at the army base in Dura
Europus on the Euphrates (the “feriale Duranum,” edited by Fink, Hoey, and Snyder
[1940]), see Webster 1969, 267 – 68; Beard, North, and Price 1998, 324 – 26. - Above, p. 163.
- Beard, North, and Price 1998, 323.
- Here I am indebted to the fine discussions of Hinds (1999 and 2005a); G.
Williams (2002). - Hinds 1999, 65 – 67; 2005a, 213 – 18 (§3 “The Tristia:Time at a Standstill”); G.
Williams 2002, 354 – 56. Note esp. Tr.5.10.1 – 14. - G. Williams 2002, 356. Note esp. Tr.3.12.17 – 26.
- So named by Cairns (1972, 137).
- G. Williams 2002, 356.
- Nos. 19, 24, 25, 32, 34, 55, 68, 77, 84, 86, 100, 105. This list does not include the
numerous “Questions” relating to festivals, such as no. 45, on the Veneralia (275E). - The second part of a double question about Delphi: “Who is the Consecrator
among the people of Delphi, and why do they have a month called Bysios?” (292D). - Compare the title of a lost prose work of Callimachus, “Names of Months by
tribes and cities” (Pfeiffer 1949, 1:339); also the “Months,” written in the early third
century b.c.e.by the poet Simmias of Rhodes.
EPILOGUE
Laurence and Smith 1995 – 96, 140 – 41.
So understood by Varro (Ling.6.8) and other authorities: Maltby 1991, 85. See
Putnam 1986, 137 n. 10, for the significance of the word here.
Commager 1962, 279; Putnam 1986, 141.
Horace does not incorporate the nundinal cycle: he mentions it nowhere else
either.
Barnett 1998, 150: “By 1500, public clocks were beginning to strike on the quar-
notes to pages 210 – 214