Note 413 — Chapter V · LUNAR SUPERSTITIONS AND FESTIVALS
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E. Rhode, Psyche,⁶ Tübingen, 1910, i, 234 n.¹, 269 n.²; E. Caillemer, in Daremberg and Saglio’s Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines, i, 332. G. F. Schoemann denies that the ἀσέλινοι were truly ill-omened, since there are instances of popular assemblies being fixed for these days (Griechische Alterthümer,⁴ edited by J. H. Lipsius, Berlin, 1897-1902, ii, 457 n.⁴). It would seem, however, that the Athenians, like the Romans, sometimes distinguished between days popularly considered unlucky and those officially recognized as such in the state calendars. Friday is for us a most unlucky day, but, excepting Good Friday, it is not a dies non.