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|lshtext=<b>Kălendae</b>: (Cal-;<br /><b>I</b><br /> v. the [[letter]] K), ārum, f. [[root]] kal-, cal-; Gr. [[καλέω]]; Lat. calāre, [[clamo]]; cf. Varr. L. L. 6, § 27 Müll.; [[prop]]., the [[day]] [[when]] the [[order]] of days [[was]] proclaimed; [[hence]], the Calends, the [[first]] [[day]] of the [[month]]: primi [[dies]] nominati [[Kalendae]], ab eo [[quod]] his diebus calantur ejus [[mensis]] nonae a pontificibus, quintanae an septimanae sint futurae, Varr. L. L. l. l.; Macr. S. 1, 15: sed heus tu, ecquid vides Kalendas venire, Antonium non venire? Cic. Att. 2, 2, 3: litteras accepi datas [[pridie]] Kalendas Maias, on the [[last]] [[day]] of April, id. ib. 13, 20, 1.—Interest [[was]] [[due]] on the [[first]] [[day]] of [[each]] [[month]]; [[hence]]: tristes [[Kalendae]], Hor. S. 1, 3, 87: celeres, Ov. R. Am. 561.—This [[reckoning]] of [[time]] [[was]] Roman [[only]]; [[hence]]: [[Kalendae]] Ausoniae, Ov. F. 1, 55.—Prov.: ad Kalendas Graecas solvere, i. e. [[never]], August. ap. Suet. Aug. 87.— The Kalends were [[sacred]] to [[Juno]], Ov. F. 1, 55; Macr. S. 1, 15; [[hence]] the [[first]] [[day]] of the [[year]], [[Kalendae]] Martiae, [[was]] [[celebrated]] as a [[festival]] of married women, the Matronalia: dabat, [[sicut]] Saturnalibus viris [[apophoreta]], ita per Kalendas Martias feminis, Suet. Vesp. 19: Martiis [[caelebs]] [[quid]] agam Kalendis, Hor. C. 3, 8, 1: scis [[certe]], [[puto]], vestra jam venire [[Saturnalia]], Martias Kalendas, Mart. 5, 84, 10; Dig. 24, 1, 31, § 8; [[hence]]: femineae [[Kalendae]] = Kal. Mart., Juv. 9, 53: [[Kalendae]] Sextae, the Calends of June, Ov. F. 6, 181: [[Kalendae]] Germanicae, the Calends of [[September]], Inscr. Orell. 4949 (cf.: in memoriam patris Septembrem mensem Germanicum appellavit, Suet. Calig. 15): [[Kalendae]] Januariae primae, of [[next]] January, [[Cato]], R. R. 147 sq.; Inscr. Orell. 3121.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., a [[month]]: nec [[totidem]] veteres, [[quot]] [[nunc]], habuere Kalendas, Ov. F. 3, 99: [[intra]] septimas Kalendas, Mart. 1, 100, 6; 10, 75, 7; Dig. 45, 1, 46.
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=<b>Kălendæ</b>, v. [[calendae]].
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{{Georges
|georg=Kalendae, s. [[Calendae]].
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|nleltext=[[καλάνδαι]]
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