Ovid gives a poetic account of the priesthood of Nemi in his Fasti, Book 3 ( on the month of March ), noting that the lake of Nemi was " sacred to antique religion ," and that the priest who dwelt there " holds his reign by strong hands and fleet feet, and dies according to the example he set himself.

The Fasti Triumphales ( also called Acta Triumphalia ) are fragmentary, inscribed stone tablets which were erected somewhere in the Forum Romanum during the reign of the first emperor, Augustus, and date from approximately 12 BCE.

These were used to organize processions which sought ennobling connections with the classical past, particularly during the Renaissance when the fragmentary Fasti were unearthed and partially restored.

Ovid in his Fasti ( 3. 523f ) provides a vivid description of the revelry and licentiousness of her outdoor festival where tents were pitched or bowers built from branches, where lad lay beside lass, and people asked that Anna bestow as many more years to them as they could drink cups of wine at the festival.

The Fasti Consulares and Triumphales were all his own work.

Of the calendar of Roman festivals ( Fasti Praenestini ) engraved on marble and set up in the forum at Praeneste, some fragments were discovered ( 1771 ) at some distance from the town itself in a Christian building of later date, and some consular fasti in the forum itself ( 1778 ).

" It was customary, as is proved by the oldest Roman Fasti, for the great houses to take distinguishing surnames from a people with whom they were connected by blood, or by the ties of public hospitality.

The iconograhic program of frescoes expressing the glory of the Farnese were worked out by the humanists in Farnese's court, notably his secretary, Annibale Caro ; The fresco cycles portray the exploits of Alexander the Great, and of course of the Farnese themselves: in the Sala dei Fasti Farnesiani ( the Room of Farnese Deeds ), decorated by the brothers Taddeo and Federico Zuccari, the Farnese are depicted at all their most glorious moments, from floor to coffered ceiling.

Fasti Diurni, divided into urbani and rustici, were a kind of official year-book, with dates and directions for religious ceremonies, court-days, market-days, divisions of the month, and the like.

Fasti consulares were official chronicles in which years were denoted by the respective consuls and other magistrates, often with the principal events that happened during their consulates, but sometimes not.

The chief authorities used were: Sextus Julius Africanus ; the consular Fasti ; the Chronicle and Church History of Eusebius ; John Malalas ; the Acta Martyrum ; the treatise of Epiphanius, bishop of Constantia ( the old Salamis ) in Cyprus ( fl.

Since the testimony of the Fasti Triumphales require some degree of Roman success in 343 and arguing that in this time period the Romans were more likely to defeat the Samnites on level than mountainous ground, Salmon ( 1967 ) therefore proposed that there was only one battle in 343 which was fought on the outskirts of Capua near the shrine of Juno Gaura, which Livy or his source has then confused with Mount Gaurus.

Several of his works were engraved by Pietro Bettelini, and some have been lithographed by Giovanni Scudellari, and published under the title of I Fasti principali della Vita di Gesú Cristo, with text in Italian and French at Rome, in 1829.

Tarquinius returned to Rome and celebrated a triumph for his victories over the Sabines which, according to the Fasti Triumphales, occurred on 13 September 585 BC.

According to the Fasti Triumphales, Servius celebrated three triumphs over the Etruscans, including on 25 November 571 BC and 25 May 567 BC ( the date of the third triumph is not legible on the Fasti ).

Fragments of similar date and style from Rome and provincial Italy appear to be modeled on the Augustan Fasti, and fill some of its gaps.

Augustus claimed the victory as his own but permitted Crassus a second, listed on the Fasti for 27 BCE, by which time Augustus was abolishing various proconsulates to form his own Imperial provinces.

Inscriptions on the Fasti Triumphales come to a seemingly abrupt full-stop in 19 BCE, by which time the triumph had been absorbed into the Augustan Imperial cult system in which only the emperor-the supreme Imperator ( or very occasionally, a close relative who had glorified the Imperial gens )-would be accorded such a supreme honour.

On January 1, the Fasti Praenestini records the festivals of Aesculapius and Vediove on the Island, while in the Fasti Ovid speaks of Jupiter and his grandson.

Such a correction concerns the temples dedicated on the Capitol ; it does not address the question of the dedication of the temple on the Island, which is puzzling, since the place is attested epigraphically as dedicated to the cult of Iuppiter Iurarius and Vediove in the Fasti Praenestini and to Jupiter according to Ovid's.

Lemures is the more common literary term but even this is rare: it is used by the Augustan poets Horace and Ovid, the latter in his Fasti, the six-book calendar poem on Roman holidays and religious customs.

Ovid touches upon the theme of Marsyas twice, very briefly telling the tale in Metamorphoses vi. 383-400, where he concentrates on the tears shed into the river Marsyas, and making an allusion in Fasti, vi. 649-710, where Ovid's primary focus is on the aulos and the roles of flute-players rather than Marsyas, whose name is not actually mentioned.

Macrobius's list and explanation are probably based directly on Cornelius Labeo's work, as he cites him often in his Saturnalia as when he gives a list of Maia's cultural epithets and mentions one of his works, Fasti.

* Translation of Ovid's Fasti, a section on January, and Janus

The Fasti Triumphales records that Valerius and Cornelius celebrated their triumphs over the Samnites on 21 September and 22 September respectively.

In his Fasti, a long-form poem covering Roman holidays from January to June, Ovid presents a unique look at Roman antiquarian lore, popular customs, and religious practice that is by turns imaginative, entertaining, high-minded, and scurrilous ; not a priestly account, despite the speaker's pose as a vates or inspired poet-prophet, but a work of description, imagination and poetic etymology that reflects the broad humor and burlesque spirit of such venerable festivals as the Saturnalia, Consualia, and feast of Anna Perenna on the Ides of March, where Ovid treats the assassination of the newly deified Julius Caesar as utterly incidental to the festivities among the Roman people.

Clinton, too, in his Fasti hellenici, charged Mitford with " a general negligence of dates ," though admitting that in his philosophical range " he is far superior to any former writer " on Greek history.

His Fasti, on classical chronology, has required correction on the basis of later research.

* Fasti Hellenici, the Civil and Literary Chronology of Greece from the 55th to the 124th Olympiad ( 1824 – 1851 ), including dissertations on points of Greek history and Scriptural chronology ; and

It has been demonstrated to be somewhat erroneous but has become the widely accepted standard chronology, in large part because it was inscribed on the arch of Augustus in Rome ; though that arch no longer stands, a large portion of the chronology has survived under the name of Fasti Capitolini.

They appear for the first time on the consular Fasti in 263 BC, and for the last in 506 ; during these nearly eight centuries, they held twenty-two consulships and three censorships.

The first is that the month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter and equivalent to the Greek goddess Hera ; the second is that the name comes from the Latin word iuniores, meaning " younger ones ," as opposed to maiores (" elders ") for which the preceding month May may be named ( Fasti VI. 1 – 88 ).

Ovid also wrote the Fasti, which describes Roman festivals and their legendary origins.

Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology, in which he says that the month of May is named for the maiores, Latin for " elders ," and that the following month ( June ) is named for the iuniores, or " young people " ( Fasti VI. 88 ).

The issue is further complicated by the Fasti Capitolini, according to which Fulvius triumphed against both the Samnites and the Etruscans.

On his return to Rome, Cassius celebrated his first triumph, which is confirmed by the Capitoline Fasti.

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The flamen recited a prayer that Ovid quotes at length in the Fasti, his six-book calendar poem on Roman holidays which provides the most extended, though problematic, description of the day.

Ovid in his Fasti has Janus say that he is the original Chaos and also the first era of the world, which got organised only afterwards.

Feralia was an ancient Roman public festival celebrating the Manes ( Roman spirits of the dead, particularly the souls of deceased individuals ) which fell on the 21st of February as recorded by Ovid in Book II of his Fasti.

The archaic name of Poplios Valesios is rendered in Classical Latin as " Publius Valerius ," which has inevitably led to speculation that the inscription refers to none other than the famous Publius Valerius Publicola, the patrician ally of Lucius Junius Brutus who dominates the list of early consuls recorded by the Fasti Capitolini and is credited in traditional accounts as one of the primary founders of the Roman Republic.

Some examples are the official history and traditions of a regiment, in Scotland the Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, the first volume of which was produced in 1915 and which is still updated at irregular intervals.

It is accompanied by an online journal, Fasti Online Documents & Research, which publishes full and interim reports on archaeological sites in Italy.

* Fasti consulares ( 1550 ; new ed., Oxford, 1802 ), with commentary, from the regal period to Tiberius, the first work in which the history of Rome was set forth in chronological order, based upon some fragments of old bronze tablets dug up in 1547 on the site of the old Forum