Cof L49 "John Nefastis still invents"---Stanley Koteks

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 3 15:55:06 CDT 2009


p. 86 hc. John Nefastis still invents. [nefastis = unholy]

fasti, the name given to the old Roman calendar which originally indicated dies fasti and nefasti, the days on which it was or was not permissible to transact legal and public business. Later were included lists of consuls (fasti consularçs), priests (fasti sacerdotalçs), and records of triumphs. They were published in 304 BC by Gnaeus Flavius. Some fragments survive in inscriptions. (Compare ANNALS.)

Kinda an "unreliable type' in THIS fiction, yes? 



      




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