Legion Six Victrix

12/02/2025

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♐️Welcome to Winter!♑️
SAVE THE DATE!: Kalends of December: 1 December
The Kalends is 1st day of each month. The Kalends of each month is sacred to Juno. Before the calendar reforms of Julius Caesar the Kalends was the day of the new moon.
Originally, the Roman calendar was based on the moon's first three phases, counting days and not according to a concept of a chronological week, but backwards from lunar phases. The new moon was the day of the Kalends, the moon's first quarter was the day of the Nones, and the Ides fell on the day of the full moon. Spanning two lunar phases, the Kalends' section of the month was the longest from the full to the new moon.
Kalends: New Moon; there was no moon to be seen.
Nones: 1st quarter moon
Ides: Full Moon; the entire moon is visible in the night sky
Romans also fixed the date of the Ides; in March, May, July and October-months with 31 days, the Ides was on the 15th.
On other months, it was the 13th. The number of days in the Ides period [from the Nones to the Ides] remained the same, eight days, while the Nones period [from the Kalends to the Nones] might have four or six and the Kalends' period [from the Ides to the start of the next month] had from 16-19 days.
The day before the Nones, Ides, or Kalends was called Pridie.
Nones (Non) was the 7th of 31 day months March, May, July, and October, and the 5th of other months.
Ides (Id) fell on the 15th of 31 day months March, May, July, and October, and on the 13th on other months.
Confused: Well, "When in Rome" you had to know this. Today, I just check the smart watch rather than the Sousse mosaic for the date....

11/21/2025

"A whisper of demure in the clamor of the Subura."..Quite possibly my favorite series ever! As a Classical living historian/Roman reenactor, my impression Pompeia frequently steps out of traditional clothing conventions and into garbage favored or suggested by that belonging to another culture. And I am impressed by the costume designer's choice to dress Niobe in a Greek-inspired peplos constructed of an appropriate fabric or at least a natural fabric that looked believably correct for the period in a pastel pink that brought a little bit of domus gentility to the insulae.

HBO's Rome was cast so brilliantly. Each person represented was believable and entertaining. The factual characters that we know from written sources behaved just as the ancient writers described. In this scene, we see soldier-turned-politician Vorenus, looking rather annoyed at having to receive his clients each morning (as was expected due to his being their patron) to hear grievances, offer financial help, and solve basic legal squabbles.