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- From: ggonth@uuisis.isis.org (Gilles Gonthier)
- Newsgroups: sci.classics
- Subject: Re: a. C. n. L
- Message-ID: <BV5cuB1w164w@uuisis.isis.org>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 03:00:28 GMT
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- In <adjg.721875587@sour.sw.oz.au> adjg@sour.sw.oz.au (Andrew Gollan) wrote:
- > Subject: a. C. n. L.
- > (...)
- > This is given as the equivalent of 50 BC in some post classical material
- > (including Asterix). Anyone know the decoding?
-
- The letters a. C. n. L stand for:
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- ante Christum natum (anno) quinquagesimo
- lit.: before Christ born the fiftieth (year)
- (the fiftieth year before the birth of Christ).
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- L = 50, cardinal number: quinquaginta, ordinal number: quinquagesimus,a,um
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