1. Education

May 8

Lemuria
Ludi Maximati
[Source: "Hints for Teachers," by Willis A. Ellis. The Classical Journal, Vol. 31, No. 8. (May, 1936), pp. 516-520.]
Vestals prepare the mola salsa for the Vestalia [Ibid.]
Augustus adopted by Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.
A.D. 1737 - Birth of Edward Gibbon
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