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|lshtext=<b>nundĭnus</b>: a, um, adj. [[novem]]-[[dies]],<br /><b>I</b> of or belonging to [[nine]] days; [[hence]], subst.<br /><b>I</b> Nundĭna, ae, f. (sc. dea), the [[goddess]] [[who]] presided [[over]] the [[purification]] and naming of infants, [[which]] took [[place]] in the [[case]] of boys on the [[ninth]] and in [[that]] of girls on the [[eighth]] [[day]] [[after]] [[birth]], Macr. S. 1, 16, 36.—<br /><b>II</b> nundĭnae, ārum (<[[number]] opt="n">[[sing]].</[[number]]> collat. form nundĭna, ae, Sid. Ep. 7, 5), f., the [[ninth]] [[day]], i. e. the [[market]]-[[day]], the weekly [[market]]; denoting the [[time]], the [[place]], and the [[business]] (on [[market]]-days the [[country]] [[people]] came [[into]] the [[city]] for the [[purpose]] of [[buying]] and [[selling]], and of attending to [[public]] and [[religious]] affairs): nundinas feriatum diem esse voluerunt antiqui, ut rustici convenirent mercandi vendendique causā: eumque nefastum, ne, si liceret cum [[populo]] agi, interpellarentur nundinatores, Paul. ex Fest. p. 173 Müll.; cf.: [[Rutilius]] scribit, Romanos instituisse nundinas, ut [[octo]] [[quidem]] diebus in agris rustici [[opus]] facerent, [[nono]] [[autem]] [[die]], intermisso rure, ad mercatum Legesque accipiendas Romam venirent, Macr. S. 1, 16, § 34: annum ita diviserunt, ut nonis [[modo]] diebus urbanas res usurparent, reliquis VII. ut rura colerent, Varr. R. R. 2 praef. § 1: erat in eo ipso [[loco]] nundinarum [[πανήγυρις]]>, Cic. Att. 1, 14, 1: [[illi]] Capuam nundinas rusticorum, [[horreum]] Campani agri esse voluerunt, id. Agr. 2, 33, 89; Plin. 28, 2, 5, § 28; 18, 3, 3, § 13: farris [[pretium]] in trinis nundinis ad assem redegit, id. 18, 3, 4, § 15.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop., [[trade]], [[traffic]], [[sale]]: totius rei publicae [[nundinae]], Cic. Phil. 5, 4, 11; cf.: vectigalium flagitiosissimae [[nundinae]], id. ib. 2, 14, 35.—<br /><b>III</b> nundĭnum, i, n., the markettime, for the [[most]] [[part]] [[only]] in the [[connection]] [[inter]] [[nundinum]], the [[time]] [[between]] [[two]] [[nundinae]], and trinum [[nundinum]], the [[time]] of [[three]] [[nundinae]], or at [[least]] seventeen days (reckoned from the [[first]] [[market]]-[[day]] to the [[third]], inclusive; it [[was]] [[necessary]] [[that]] this [[period]] should [[expire]] [[before]] a [[bill]] could be [[put]] to the [[vote]]. Macr. S. 1, 16, § 34): si [[nihil]] gustat [[inter]] [[nundinum]], Lucil. ap. Non. 214, 28: quoties [[priscus]] [[homo]] ac [[rusticus]] Romanus [[inter]] [[nundinum]] barbam radebat, Varr. ib. 214, 30; 32: [[postquam]] [[comitia]] decemviris creandis in trinum [[nundinum]] indicta sunt, on the [[third]] [[market]]-[[day]], Liv. 3, 35: [[rogatio]] [[sive]] non trino [[forte]] [[nundino]] promulgata [[sive]] non idoneo [[die]], Quint. 2, 4, 35: [[quod]] in ceteris legibus trinum [[nundinum]] esse [[oportet]], Cic. Dom. 16, 41: [[primo]] [[nundino]], Lampr. Alex. Sev. 28.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> The [[duration]] of the [[consulship]], under the emperors ( = [[two]] months), Vop. Tac. 9; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 43.
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