Endoitio Exitio Nefas
Endoitio Exitio Nefas (also EN days ) represented special days of sacrifice in the Roman calendar , with the sacrifices taking place at the beginning and at the end of the day. Marcus Verrius Flaccus reported that those days were entered in the calendar with the abbreviation "EN" for E ndoitio E xitio N efas . The E from Endoitio flowed into the E from Exitio as a ligature .
EN days
Function of the EN days
The EN days were not of great practical importance in the Roman calendar, as they primarily provided pure additional information for other days in order to prevent temporary overlaps. For example, a people's assembly could take place on one of the EN days, but it met between the morning and evening sacrifices, which is why the time between the victims was also entered as normal Fas days in the Roman calendar.
Earlier interpretations of the EN days
Earlier explanations, which say that the term Endotercisus is hidden behind the abbreviation “EN” , are based on an incorrect interpretation by Paulus Manutius (1512–1574) from the 16th century. Hermans published the untenability of this equation as early as 1964, but the wrong allocation is still published very often due to the wide distribution of the Lenten volumes by Degrassi.
EN days in the Roman calendar
The EN days were spread over the following months in the Roman calendar:
- Ianuarius : 1 day
- February : 2 days
- Martius : 1 day
- Aprilis : 1 day
- Sextilis : 1 day
- October : 2 days
- December : 3 days
See also
literature
- Jörg Rüpke : Calendar and Public: The History of Representation and Religious Qualification of Time in Rome . de Gruyter, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-11-014514-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ MEH Hermanns: Endotercisus . In: MH 21 . 1964, pp. 173-176.
- ^ Attilio Degrassi : Inscriptiones italiae. Vol. 13: Fasti et elogi . Libreria Dello Stato, Roma 1963, 13,2,1.2: Fasti anni Numani et Iuliani.