Not to be confused with Nundina, the goddess of Roman birthname ceremonies.
A fragment of the Fasti Praenestini for the month of (month) (Aprilis), showing its nundinal letters on the left sideThe full remains of the Fasti Praenestini
The nundinae (/nənˈdɪnaɪ/, /-niː/), sometimes anglicized to nundines,[1] were the market days of the ancient Roman calendar, forming a kind of weekend including, for a certain period, rest from work for the ruling class (patricians).[2]
The nundinal cycle, market week, or 8-day week (Latin: nundinum[3] or internundinum)[4][5] was the cycle of days preceding and including each nundinae. These were marked on fasti using nundinal letters from A to H. The earliest form of the Roman calendar is sometimes said to have included exactly 38 such cycles, running for 304 days from March to December before an unorganized expanse of about 50 winter days. The lengths of the Republican and Julian calendars, however, were not evenly divisible by 8; under these systems, the nundinae fell on a different letter each year. These letters formed the basis of the later Christian dominical letters.
^"nundine, n.", Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The nundinae (/nənˈdɪnaɪ/, /-niː/), sometimes anglicized to nundines, were the market days of the ancient Roman calendar, forming a kind of weekend including...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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"...
(New York: Teachers College Press, 1966).[page needed] Struck (2009), "Nundinae". Yun Lee Too, Education in Greek and Roman antiquity (Boston: Brill, 2001)...
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...
and market scenes Market Scene by Pieter Aertsen, 1550 Rustic Market (Nundinae Rusticorum) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1555–56 Fish Market by Joachim...
secession. The convening of the assembly was announced three market-days (nundinae) in advance. The viatores (messengers) were sent "to inform those in country...
performing animal sacrifice; she offered a ram to Jupiter on each of the nundinae, the eight-day Roman cycle comparable to a week. The couple were not permitted...
flaminica was essential in the performance of certain rituals. On each of the nundinae, she sacrificed a ram to Juno Regina in the Curia Calabra.(i, 16) The flaminica...
Maleciabrudes Monitor O. M. (leader, warner) Nundinarius (patron of the nundinae) Obsequens (agreeable, complacent) Opitulator or Opitulus (reliever) Optimus...
sunset to sunset for the Greeks) the weeks, the nones of eight full days (nundinae) and market day on the ninth the months, based on the lunar cycle, with...
Byzacena at gcatholic.org. Elizabeth Fentress, Where were North African Nundinae held. Charles Tissot, Rapport sur la mission en Tunisie de M. Julien Poinssot...
with the intercalation, the appointment of the Plebeian Tribunes, the nundinae (market and feast days of the old Roman calendar), etc. Because some quotations...
mean either three Roman eight-day weeks (that is, 24 days) or tertiae nundinae, on the third market-day (17 days). The second provision of the lex Caecilia...
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