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    The nundinae (/nənˈdɪnaɪ/, /-niː/), sometimes anglicized to nundines, were the market days of the ancient Roman calendar, forming a kind of weekend including...
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  • code for Nuneaton railway station, UK Nun, a Latin abbreviation for the nundinae market days The Nun (disambiguation) Nunn (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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    duties, and presided over the sacrifice of a ram to Jupiter on each of the nundinae, the "market" days of a calendar cycle, comparable to a week. The couple...
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    from birth for a male and the eighth for a female. The recurrence of the nundinae was also considered a dies festus and as such nefas by some Roman scholars...
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    into an eight-day cycle called the nundinae, with every eighth day being a market day. Independent of the nundinae, astrologers kept a seven-day cycle...
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  • calendars to indicate each day's position in the eight-day market week (nundinae). The word is derived from the number nine due to their practice of inclusive...
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    H to indicate its place within the nundinal cycle of market days. The nundinae were the market days which formed a kind of weekend in Rome, Italy, and...
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    p. 108. ISBN 978-0-521-52349-3. Black's Law Dictionary Struck (2009), "Nundinae". Brown, Chris (19 April 2013). "Twin Town Crier helps keep the beer flowing"...
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  • latest. In Ancient Rome (753 BC–476 AD), every eight days there was a nundinae. It was a market day, during which children were exempted from school and...
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    and market scenes Market Scene by Pieter Aertsen, 1550 Rustic Market (Nundinae Rusticorum) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1555–56 Fish Market by Joachim...
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