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fasti (făs`tī), in ancient Rome, dies fasti were days on which public business could be transacted without impiety. The word also came to be used for the calendars and almanacs that contained such information as holy days, festivals, and historical events. The first known fasti was published in 304 B.C.

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Like the title divi filius, it symbolized his superiority over the mass of humanity (Ovid, Fasti 1.
30) Now the wife of Celeus was called Metanira, as Pausanias (31) tells us, so a verse in Ovid's Fasti (32) should read: "Matre salutata mater Metanira vocatur"--"Metanira," not "Menalina.
Hew Scott, Fasti Ecclesiae Scotticanae VI (Edinburgh, 1926) p.
 
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