From: Bruce Dayton
So just what is an 'Ide' anyway and are there 'Ides' for any other
month? Inquiring minds want to know.
Interesting place and nicely done. Thanks for sharing it.
Romans counted dates backwards from three fixed points: the Nones, the
Ides and the Kalends of the following month.
The Romans originally had a 10 month lunar calender. Martius was the
first month, and the tenth month was December, then there's about 61
days of winter that weren't in any month before the next year starts.
Kalends coincides with the new moon, nones is the first quarter, and the
ides is the full moon. They don't seem to have counted the last quarter.
Kalendae = first day of the month. (Kalend -> Calendar)
Noneae = 7th day of short (29 day) month, 9th day of long (30 day) months
Idus = 13th day of short month, 15th day of long month
The Ides falls on the 15th day of the months of March, May, July, and
October.
http://www.polysyllabic.com/calhistory/earlier/roman/kalends
If you want to know what the date is tomorrow, it's seventeen days
before the Kalends of Aprilis (a.d. xvii Kal. Apr.)
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