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Fasti Kalendares. - These were so called, because the days of each month, from kalends to kalends, were marked in them; and because they also noted all the religious ceremonies from the beginning to the end of each month. Towards the close of the republic, and afterwards under the imperial government, insensate pride in the governors, and adulatory baseness in the governed, occasioned the prostitution of these tables, and rendered them ultimately subservient to the extravagance of princes and the degeneracy of the people. For a man to have his name adscrptum on the Fasti, had always been reckoned an object of legitimate ambition, as it was indeed one of the highest honor; but then it was confined to the consular and triumphal Fasti. The emperors, not content with ruling the world, affected Divinity, and obtruded themselves on the calendar as objects of every kind of religious adoration.

Fasti Consulares, in which were annually marked the names of magistrates, particularly consuls, and dictators, (when the latter were appointed); also the wars, victories, and political changes of the republic, together with memorials of secular games and other remarkable events. And this was done, as well to preserve the dates of successive years, and to hand down the remembrance of important transactions. See Pitiscus and Adams.

A most important specimen of the Fasti, belonging to the class of Consulares, supposed to have been executed at the beginning of the reign of Tiberius, has been partly preserved. "In the year 1547, several fragments of marble tablets were discovered, in excavating the Roman forvm, and were found to contain a list of consuls, dictators, and their masters of horse, censors with the lustra which they closed, triumphs and ovations, all arranged in regular succession, according to the years of the Catonian aera. These had evidently extended from the expulsion of the kings to the death of Augustus; and, although defective in many places, have proved of the greatest value in chronology. The different pieces were collected and arranged under the inspection of Cardinal Alexander Farnese, and deposited in the Capitol, where they still remain. From this circumstance they are generally distinguished as the Fasti Capitolini. In the years 1817 and 1818, two other fragments of the same marble tablets were discovered in the course of a new excavation in the forvm. A facsimile of them was published at Milan, by Borghesi, in 1818." [The foegoing passage is extracted from an able article, embracing notices of all points needful to be known on the subject, contained in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, edited by Dr. Smith, at the end of which work the Fasti Consulares themselves are given.]

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