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François Delaborde (Paris, 1882), 1: 111 — 12: "Sequenti mense, x kalendas augusti, Ludovicus filius Philippi regis cepit egrotare morbo gravissimo qui a physicis dissinteria vocatur."
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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During the early Middle Ages this system was retained practically unaltered except that the long Roman form was somewhat contracted, for example decimo kalendas Julii was written instead of the ante diem decimum kalendas Julias.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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"Ad Graecas, [Note 2] bone Rex, fient mandata kalendas!" was the prompt reply of England's Elizabeth.
Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Quam tus, sive profectionis, sive 'triumphi, sive equidem postremam conjecturam, quando annis singuUs post kalendas Januarias, sive certam. causam ex veteribus eruere non solennitate quacunque alia, erbgatosque possumus, omnium. maxime verisimilem publice in omne hominum genus, ac pro - existimo.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792
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In marking the days of the month they went backwards: thus, January first was the first of the _kalends_ of January -- December thirty-first was _pridie kalendas_, or the day next before the _kalends_ of
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway
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January -- the day before that, or the thirtieth of December, _tertio kalendas Januarii_, or the third day before the _kalends_ of January, and so on to the thirteenth, when came the ides of December.
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway
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Datum ad Sacrarii Montem in Aula Personica tertio kalendas Iulii, Anno Salutis Millesimo Octingesimo decem.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907
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"Hic jacet D [= n] s Thomas Burto [= n] miles quondam d [= u] s de Tolthorp ac ecclesiæ .... patronus qui obiit kalendas Augusti .... d [= n] a Margeria uxor ejus sinistris quor [um], a [= i] abus ppicietur deus amen."
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Thus the twenty-fourth of May was called ante diem nonum kalendas Junias (i.e. the ninth day before the kalends of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Patriarcha Alexandrinus & Administrator Ecclesiæ Tarraconensis ordinato per eum, inter multa alia bona opera_ novo Monasterio scalæ Dei _Diacessis Tarraconensis, ut per ipsam scalam ad Coelum ascenderet reddidit spiritum Creatori XIV. kalendas Septembris, anno Domini MCCCXXXIV. anno vero ætatis suæ XXXIII. pro quo Deus tam in vita, quam post mortem ejusdem est multa miracula operatus_. "
A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 Volume 1 (of 2) Philip Thicknesse 1755
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