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VII : Commentary
"Fixed days (dies fissi)"
The following comments were made by A. Apollonius a. d. VII Kal. Qui. K. Buteone Po. Minucia cos. ‡ MMDCCLIX a.u.c. in discussion on the ReligioRomana list (message 8854 in the archive):
- I fear the pontices have fallen victims to a false etymology. Fissus is the past participle of the verb findere, meaning "to split or cut", and therefore dies fissi are "cut days". [The] pontifices may have been thinking of fixus, meaning "fixed", the past participle of figere, meaning "to fix or fasten".
