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Fasti - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | Fasti dies thus came to mean the days on which law business might be transacted without impiety, corresponding to our own "lawful days"; the opposite of the dies fasti were the dies nefasti, on which, on various religious grounds, the courts could not sit. |
 | | Fasti Magistrates, Annales or Historici, were concerned with the several feasts, and everything relating to the gods, religion and the magistrates; to the emperors, their birthdays, offices, days consecrated to them, with feasts and ceremonies established in their honour or for their prosperity. |
 | | The word fasti thus came to be used in the general sense of "annals" or "historical records." A famous specimen of the same class are the fasti Capitolini, so called because they were deposited in the Capitol by Alexander Farnese, after their excavation from the Roman forum in 1547. |
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