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NONAE.
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9
NUNDINAE.
board and maintain the policy of the existing
institution. If the proposed measure met
the approval of the committee, it passed into
law forthwith. Besides this, the Thesmo-
thctae were officially authorised to review
the whole code, and to refer to the Nomo-
tlietae all statutes which they considered
unworthy of being- retained. Hence appears
the difference between Psephisma (i//>j(|)icr/ia)
and Nomos (Vo/xos). The mere resolution of
the people in assembly was a pscphisma, and
only remained in force a year, like a decree
of the senate. Nothing' was a law that did
not pass the ordeal of the Nomothetae.
NONAE. [Calkndauiuji.]
NOTA, which signified a mark or sign of
any kind, was also employed for an abbre-
viation. Hence notae signified the marks or
signs used in taking down the words of a
speaker, and was equivalent to our short-
hand writing, or stenography; and notarii
signified short-hand writers. It must be
borne in mind, however, that notae also sig-
nified writing in cipher ; and many passages
in the ancient reciters which are supposed to
refer to short-hand, refer in reality to writing
in cipher. Among the Greeks it is said to
have been invented by Xenophon, and their
short-hand writers were called raxvypd^oi.,
b^vypdiftoL and cn^eioypa^oi. The first intro-
duction of the art among the Romans is as-
cribed to Cicero. He is said to have caused
the debate in the senate on the punishment
of the Catiiinarian conspirators to be taken
dowp in short-hand. Eusebius ascribes it to
Tiro, the freedman of Cicero, and hence the
system of abbreviated writing, in which
some manuscripts are written, has received
the name of Notae Tinmianae ; but there is
no evidence to show whether this species of
short-hand was really the invention of Tiro.
The system of short-hand employed in the
time of the Roman empire must have been of
a much simpler and more expeditious kind
than the Notae Tironianac, which were
merely abbreviations of the words. Many of
the wealthy Romans kept slaves, who were
trained in the art. It was also learnt even
by the Roman nobles, and the emperor Titus
was a great proficient in it. At a later time,
it seems to have been generally taught in the
schools. There were, moreover, short-hand
writers [notarii) by profession, who were
chiefly employed in taking down (notare, ex-
cipere) the proceedings in the courts of justice.
At a later period, they were called exceptores.
These short-hand writers were also employed
on some occasions to take down a person's
will.
NOTARII, short-hand writers, spoken of
under Nota. They were likewise called Ac-
tuarii. They were also employed by the
emperors, and in course of time the title of
Notarii was exclusively applied to the private
secretaries of the emperors, who, of course,
were no longer slaves, but persons of high
rank. The short-hand writers were now
called exceptores, as is remarked under Nota.
NOTA CENSOIUA. [Censor.]
NOYENDIALE (sc. sacrum).—(1) A fes-
tival lasting nine days, which was celebrated
as often as stones rained from heaven. It
was originally instituted by Tullus Hostilius,
when there was a shower of stones upon the
Mons Albanus, and was frequently celebrated
in later times.—(2) This name was also given
to the sacrifice performed nine days after a
funeral. [Fu.sus.]
NOVI HOMINES. [Nobilf.s.]
NUDUS (yvfiv6s). These words, besides
denoting absolute nakedness, were applied to
any one who, being without an Amictcs,
wore only his tunic or indutus. In this state
of nudity the ancients performed the opera-
tions of ploughing, sowing, and reaping.
This term applied to the warrior expressed
the absence of some part of his armour.
Hence the light-armed were called yvfxvfiTes.
[Akma.]
NUMMULARII or NUMULARII. [Men-
sarii.]
NUMMUS or NUMUS. [Sestertius.]
NUNDINAE is derived by all the ancient
writers from novem and dies, so that it
literally signifies the ninth day. Every eighth
day, according to our mode of speaking, was
a nundinae, and there were thus always seven
ordinary days between two nundinae. The
Romans in their peculiar mode of reckoning
added these two nundinae to the seven ordi-
nary days, and consequently said that the
nundinae recurred every ninth day, and
called them nundinae, as it were noveindinae.
The number of nundinae in the ancient year
of ten months was 38. The)' were originally
market-days for the country folk, on which
they came to Koine to sell the produce of
their labour, and on which the king settled
the legal disputes among them. When,
therefore, we read that the nundinae were
feriae, or dies nefasti, and that no comitia
were allowed to be held, we have to under-
stand this of the populus or patricians, and
not of the plebes; and while for the populus
the nundinae were feriae, they were real
days of business (dies fasti or coniitiales) for
the plebeians, who on these occasions pleaded
their causes with members of their own order,
and held their public meetings (the ancient
comitia of the plebeians). Afterwards the
nundinae became fasti for both orders, and
this innovation facilitated the attendance of
27
9
NUNDINAE.
board and maintain the policy of the existing
institution. If the proposed measure met
the approval of the committee, it passed into
law forthwith. Besides this, the Thesmo-
thctae were officially authorised to review
the whole code, and to refer to the Nomo-
tlietae all statutes which they considered
unworthy of being- retained. Hence appears
the difference between Psephisma (i//>j(|)icr/ia)
and Nomos (Vo/xos). The mere resolution of
the people in assembly was a pscphisma, and
only remained in force a year, like a decree
of the senate. Nothing' was a law that did
not pass the ordeal of the Nomothetae.
NONAE. [Calkndauiuji.]
NOTA, which signified a mark or sign of
any kind, was also employed for an abbre-
viation. Hence notae signified the marks or
signs used in taking down the words of a
speaker, and was equivalent to our short-
hand writing, or stenography; and notarii
signified short-hand writers. It must be
borne in mind, however, that notae also sig-
nified writing in cipher ; and many passages
in the ancient reciters which are supposed to
refer to short-hand, refer in reality to writing
in cipher. Among the Greeks it is said to
have been invented by Xenophon, and their
short-hand writers were called raxvypd^oi.,
b^vypdiftoL and cn^eioypa^oi. The first intro-
duction of the art among the Romans is as-
cribed to Cicero. He is said to have caused
the debate in the senate on the punishment
of the Catiiinarian conspirators to be taken
dowp in short-hand. Eusebius ascribes it to
Tiro, the freedman of Cicero, and hence the
system of abbreviated writing, in which
some manuscripts are written, has received
the name of Notae Tinmianae ; but there is
no evidence to show whether this species of
short-hand was really the invention of Tiro.
The system of short-hand employed in the
time of the Roman empire must have been of
a much simpler and more expeditious kind
than the Notae Tironianac, which were
merely abbreviations of the words. Many of
the wealthy Romans kept slaves, who were
trained in the art. It was also learnt even
by the Roman nobles, and the emperor Titus
was a great proficient in it. At a later time,
it seems to have been generally taught in the
schools. There were, moreover, short-hand
writers [notarii) by profession, who were
chiefly employed in taking down (notare, ex-
cipere) the proceedings in the courts of justice.
At a later period, they were called exceptores.
These short-hand writers were also employed
on some occasions to take down a person's
will.
NOTARII, short-hand writers, spoken of
under Nota. They were likewise called Ac-
tuarii. They were also employed by the
emperors, and in course of time the title of
Notarii was exclusively applied to the private
secretaries of the emperors, who, of course,
were no longer slaves, but persons of high
rank. The short-hand writers were now
called exceptores, as is remarked under Nota.
NOTA CENSOIUA. [Censor.]
NOYENDIALE (sc. sacrum).—(1) A fes-
tival lasting nine days, which was celebrated
as often as stones rained from heaven. It
was originally instituted by Tullus Hostilius,
when there was a shower of stones upon the
Mons Albanus, and was frequently celebrated
in later times.—(2) This name was also given
to the sacrifice performed nine days after a
funeral. [Fu.sus.]
NOVI HOMINES. [Nobilf.s.]
NUDUS (yvfiv6s). These words, besides
denoting absolute nakedness, were applied to
any one who, being without an Amictcs,
wore only his tunic or indutus. In this state
of nudity the ancients performed the opera-
tions of ploughing, sowing, and reaping.
This term applied to the warrior expressed
the absence of some part of his armour.
Hence the light-armed were called yvfxvfiTes.
[Akma.]
NUMMULARII or NUMULARII. [Men-
sarii.]
NUMMUS or NUMUS. [Sestertius.]
NUNDINAE is derived by all the ancient
writers from novem and dies, so that it
literally signifies the ninth day. Every eighth
day, according to our mode of speaking, was
a nundinae, and there were thus always seven
ordinary days between two nundinae. The
Romans in their peculiar mode of reckoning
added these two nundinae to the seven ordi-
nary days, and consequently said that the
nundinae recurred every ninth day, and
called them nundinae, as it were noveindinae.
The number of nundinae in the ancient year
of ten months was 38. The)' were originally
market-days for the country folk, on which
they came to Koine to sell the produce of
their labour, and on which the king settled
the legal disputes among them. When,
therefore, we read that the nundinae were
feriae, or dies nefasti, and that no comitia
were allowed to be held, we have to under-
stand this of the populus or patricians, and
not of the plebes; and while for the populus
the nundinae were feriae, they were real
days of business (dies fasti or coniitiales) for
the plebeians, who on these occasions pleaded
their causes with members of their own order,
and held their public meetings (the ancient
comitia of the plebeians). Afterwards the
nundinae became fasti for both orders, and
this innovation facilitated the attendance of