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• The market " week " is the nundinal cycle.
• The effect of the bissextile day on the nundinal cycle is not discussed in the sources.
• :During the Roman Republic, there was traditionally an eight-day market cycle ( " nundinum ", see Roman _ calendar # Nundinal _ cycle ).
• Days were also marked with nundinal letters in cycles of " A B C D E F G H ", to mark the " market week"
• Since the length of the year was not a multiple of eight days, the letter for the market day ( known as a " nundinal letter " ) changed every year.
• Combining these with what is known about how the calendar worked, especially the nundinal cycle, an accurate conversion of Roman dates after 58 BC relative to the start of the Julian calendar can be performed.
• The ancient Romans traditionally used the eight-day nundinal cycle, a market week, but in the time of Augustus in the 1st century AD, a seven-day week also came into use.
• The regular calendar year thus consisted of 304 days ( 38 nundinal cycles ), with the winter days after the end of December and before the beginning of the following March not being assigned to any month.
• Days were also marked with nundinal letters in cycles of " A B C D E F G H ", to mark the " market week " ( these are omitted on the table below ).
• Days were also marked with nundinal letters in cycles of " A B C D E F G H ", to mark the " market week " ( these are omitted in the table below ).
• A fragment of the " Fasti Praenestini " for the month of April ( " Aprilis " ), showing the letters of the nundinal cycle ( an eight-day market week ) on the left edge
• The nundinal cycle formed one rhythm of day-to-day Roman life; the market day was the day when country people would come to the city, and the day when city people would buy their eight days'worth of groceries.
• Because the nundinal cycle was absolutely fixed at eight days under the Republic, information about the dates of market days is one of the most important tools used for working out the Julian equivalent of a Roman date in the pre-Julian calendar.
• The Romans also had at least two priesthoods that were each held jointly by a married couple, the " first day of every month, and the " flaminica " every nundinal cycle ( the Roman equivalent of a week ).
• The term " week " is sometimes expanded to refer to other time units comprising a few days, such as the nundinal cycle of the ancient Roman calendar, or the " work week " or " school week " referring only to the days spent on those activities.
• Octaves, not being successive, are quite distinct from eight-day weeks and simply refer to the return of the same day of a seven-day week in the inclusive counting system used in Latin ( just as the ninth day was a return to the same day of a nundinal cycle, the eight-day week of the pre-Christian Roman calendar ).
• This may indicate that a single nundinal letter was assigned to both halves of the 48-hour bissextile day by this time, so that the Regifugium and the market day might fall on the same date but on different days . In any case, the 8-day nundinal cycle began to be displaced by the 7-day week in the first century AD, and dominical letters began to appear alongside nundinal letters in the fasti.
• This may indicate that a single nundinal letter was assigned to both halves of the 48-hour bissextile day by this time, so that the Regifugium and the market day might fall on the same date but on different days . In any case, the 8-day nundinal cycle began to be displaced by the 7-day week in the first century AD, and dominical letters began to appear alongside nundinal letters in the fasti.
• This may indicate that a single nundinal letter was assigned to both halves of the 48-hour bissextile day by this time, so that the Regifugium and the market day might fall on the same date but on different days . In any case, the 8-day nundinal cycle began to be displaced by the 7-day week in the first century AD, and dominical letters began to appear alongside nundinal letters in the fasti.
• The nundinal cycle was eventually replaced by the modern seven-day week, which first came into use in Italy during the early imperial period, after the Julian calendar had come into effect in 45 BC . The system of nundinal letters was also adapted for the week . ( See dominical letter . ) For a while, the week and the nundinal cycle coexisted, but by the time the week was officially adopted by days of the week.