Kalendae

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Kălend|ae, -arum. (kaˈlen.de) fem. plur.

1. The Calends; the first day of a Roman month.

Constructions

Noun constructions

• circiter Kalendas — ‘around the first of the month,’ Cic. [δʹ], [εʹ], [στʹ], [ζʹ], [ζ²], [ηʹ]

Loci

• αʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 7.8:

habebamus autem in manibus Antoni contionem habitam x Kal. Ian., in qua erat accusatio Pompei usque a toga pura, querela de damnatis, terror armorum.

Nevertheless we had in our hands the address that Antony gave on the 21st of December; in it was an indictment of Pompey going all the way back to when he put on the toga of manhood, a complaint about those who had been condemned, and the threat of arms.

• βʹ Cicero, Ad Quintum Fratrem 3.1:

Romam cum venissem a. d. XIII. Kal. Octobres, absolutum offendi in aedibus tuis tectum, quod supra conclavia non placuerat tibi esse multorum fastigiorum: id nunc honeste vergit in tectum inferioris porticus.

When I got to Rome on September 19, I found that the roof of your house—above the rooms, where you didn't want there to be so many gables—had been finished; it now slopes handsomely down to the roof of the lower colonnade.

• γʹ Cicero, In Verrem Secunda 1.148:

Diem praestituit operi faciundo Kalendas Decembris, locat circiter Idus Septembris; angustiis temporis excluduntur omnes.

He set up a day for the work to be done, the first of December, and he contracts around mid-September; all are excluded by the shortness of the time.

• δʹ n. Cicero, Ad Atticum 12.27:

sciri enim iam puto ubi Pansam exspectet — si, ut consuetudo est, in prima provincia, circiter Kal. adfuturus videtur.

Of course by now I think it's known where he expects Pansa — if it's at the edge of his province, as it usually is, it looks like it will be around the first of the month.

• εʹ n. Cicero, Ad Atticum 2.4:

nos circiter Kal. aut in Formiano erimus aut in Pompeiano.

Around the first of the month we'll either be at our place in Formiae or in Pompeii.

• στʹ n. Cicero, Ad Atticum 5.18:

nihil enim certi habebamus nisi accepisse nos tuas litteras a. d. XIV. Kal. Sextil. datas, in quibus scriptum esset te in Epirum iturum circiter Kal. Sextil.

For we had nothing for certain, except for your letter we received dated July 19, where it had been written that you would be going to Epirus around the first of August.

• ζʹ⁻² n. n.² Cicero, Ad Atticum 6.1:

Philotimum circiter Kal. Ianuarias in Chersonesum audio venisse

I hear that Philotimus came to the Chersonese around the first of January.

• ηʹ n. Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.57:

Ego in Ciliciam proficisci cogito circiter Kal. Maias.

I'm considering heading off to Cilicia around the first of May.