Note 932 — Chapter IX · UNLUCKY DAYS
Reading edition
Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum, i, pt. i,² 256, 297, with T. Mommsen’s commentary. The anonymous author of the Versus de diebus Ægyptiacis (Poetæ latini minores, ed. A. Baehrens, v, 354-356) reduces their number to twenty-four:
Bis deni binique dies scribuntur in anno, In quibus una solet mortalibus hora timeri.