October 10th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "albo lapillo notare diem"
"albo lapillo notare diem"
"to mark the day with a white stone" - from Pliny the Elder's Natural History VII.xl.41, referring to a custom purported to go back to the Thracians of marking good and bad days with white and black stones in an urn, and being able to take out the pebbles at the end of a month and look over the number of good and bad days.
a.d. VI Idus Octobres anno A.U.C. MMDCCLXXVI
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