Ἀποφράδες ἡμέραι
taboo days, unmentionable days
Translated by Jennifer Benedict30 Jun 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning ones] on which they offer libations to those who have passed away. Or those [days] which are not suitable for business.1
Appian [writes]: "this became a great distress to the Romans, because so many were involved and the household was noble and esteemed and it had been utterly destroyed. And they set the day [as] unmentionable."2
Ora)pofra/des , [meaning] unclean days, in which especially there are offerings to the dead.3
Appian [writes]: "this became a great distress to the Romans, because so many were involved and the household was noble and esteemed and it had been utterly destroyed. And they set the day [as] unmentionable."2
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