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| Document name | dendrophori Romae Johannes Lydus, Mens. 4,59 |
| Name variant (this document) | τῶν δενδροφόρων |
| Standard name of the group | dendrophori Romae |
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| Standard reference | Johannes Lydus, Mens. 4,59 |
| References to other standard editions | Johannes Lydus, Mens. 4,59 |
| Source type | literary |
| Type of inscription | n/a |
| Type of monument | n/a |
| Main location | Roma |
| Main province | Roma |
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| Post quem | 41 AD |
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| Ante quem | 54 AD |
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| Standard text of source |
Τῇ πρὸ δεκαμιᾶς Καλενδῶν Ἀπριλίων δένδρον πίτυς παρὰ τῶν δενδροφόρων ἐφέρετο ἐν τῷ Παλατίῳ. τὴν δὲ ἑορτὴν Κλαύδιος ὁ βασιλεὺς κατεστήσατο, ἀνὴρ οὕτω δίκαιος περὶ τὰς κρίσεις, ὡς μητέρα τὸν ἑαυτῆς παῖδα ἀρνουμένην κελεῦσαι ὡσανεὶ ξένην γαμηθῆναι (5) αὐτῷ, τὴν δὲ ἀπειποῦσαν κρῖναι μητέρα.
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On the 11th day before the Kalends of April (22 March), a pine tree would be carried on the Palatine by the dendrophori ["tree-bearers"]. The festival was established by the Emperor Claudius, a man so just in his judgments that he ordered a mother who was denying her own child to be married to him [i.e., the child], on the grounds that she was a stranger to him; but by her refusal he determined that she was the mother.
Translated by Andrew Eastbourne (http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/john_the_lydian_months_04.htm)
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