NUNDINAL CALENDARS OF ANCIENT ITALY,

NUNDINAL CALENDAR OF ROMULUS,

CALENDAR OF NUMA POMPILIUS,

CALENDAR OF THE DECEMVIRS,

IRREGULAR ROMAN CALENDAR,

AND

JULIAN CORRECTION.

TABLES OF THE ROMAN CALENDAR,

FROM

U. C. 4 OF VARRO B. C. 750 TO U. C. 1108 A. D. 355.

BY

EDWARD GRESWELL, B.D.

FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOLUME IV.

OXFORD:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

M.DCCC.LIV.

Clar. Press

31. a. 46.

ORIGINES KALENDARIÆ ITALICE.

ON THE CALENDARS OF ANCIENT ITALY.

DISSERTATION XIX.

On the Julian Correction.

CHAPTER I.

SECTION I.-On the date of the Correction, or the year of the Vulgar Era which coincided with that of the Correction.

HE nature of that particular form of the civil reckoning

THER

of noctidiurnal and annual time which is known by the name of the Julian Calendar, the construction of this calendar, and the laws or rules by which its administration is regulated perpetually, are no doubt too familiar to our readers at present to require any explanation on their account. But the case was different with the contemporaries of Julius Cæsar, the author of the Correction at Rome. It is probable that to all of them, without exception, the Julian calendar, at its first introduction into use, was as new as it was interesting. Proposing as we do to give an account of this Correction in its proper place and order in the history of the Roman calendar from first to last; we must begin with inquiring into the mode and process by which it was carried into effect; and by which the Julian calendar was introduced and established in the room of the old Roman calendar: and if our purpose