Editing Fasti (section)

===''Fasti Diurni''===
''Fasti Diurni'', divided into {{lang|la|urbani}} and {{lang|la|rustici}}, were a kind of official year-book, with dates and directions for religious ceremonies, court-days, market-days, divisions of the month, and the like. Until 304 BC the lore of the ''calendaria'' remained the exclusive and lucrative monopoly of the priesthood; but in that year [[Gnaeus Flavius]], a pontifical secretary, introduced the custom of publishing in the forum tables containing the requisite information, besides brief references to victories, triumphs, prodigies, etc. This list was the origin of the public Roman calendar, in which the days were divided into weeks of eight days each, and indicated by the letters A–H. Each day was marked by a certain letter to show its nature; thus the letters F., N., N.P., F.P., Q. Rex C.F., C., EN., stood for {{lang|la|fastus}}, {{lang|la|nefastus}}, {{lang|la|nefastus}} in some unexplained sense, {{lang|la|fastus priore}}, {{lang|la|quando rex (sacrorum) comitiavit fastus}}, {{lang|la|comitialis}} and {{lang|la|intercisus}}. The {{lang|la|dies intercisi}} were partly fasti and partly nefasti. Ovid's ''[[Fasti (poem)|Fasti]]'' is a poetical description of the Roman festivals of the first six months, written to illustrate the ''Fasti'' published by [[Julius Caesar]] after he remodelled the Roman year. Upon the cultivators fewer feasts, sacrifices, ceremonies and holidays were enjoined than on the inhabitants of cities; and the rustic ''fasti'' contained little more than the ceremonies of the calends, {{lang|la|[[nones (calendar)|nones]]}} and {{lang|la|[[ides (calendar)|ides]]}}, the fairs, signs of zodiac, increase and decrease of the days, the tutelary gods of each month, and certain directions for rustic labours to be performed each month.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=192}}