Lex Acilia de Intercalando
The Lex Acilia de intercalando (
intercalation in the Roman calendar
.
Context
The state of the
claims the Acilian Law was the first to authorize any intercalation.The calendar seems to have been greatly out of sync with the seasons during this period, probably in part due to the exigencies of the Second Punic War. Two astronomical events dated by Livy show the Roman calendar was 4 months out of alignment with its Julian counterpart in 190 BC, the year after the reform, and only two months out of alignment by 168 BC.
Contents
The details of the law are uncertain, but it seems to have placed the decision whether or not to intercalate a month into the year with the College of Pontiffs.[3]
See also
- Roman Law and List of Roman laws
- Gens Acilia
- Roman calendar
References
- ^ L. Franchini, 'Osservazioni in merito alla lex Acilia de intercalando', in 'Annali LUMSA, 2002, 323-340.
- ^ Michels, Agnes Kirsopp Lake, "The Calendar of Numa and the Pre-Julian Calendar", Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 80, pp. 320–346.
- ISBN 978-0-521-60697-4.