Note 1276 — Chapter V · THE PEOPLE AND ITS POWERS
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Dionysius, Plutarch, and Priscian explain trinum nundinum as the third market-day, an interval of trinarum nundinarum, i.e. seventeen days; but Mommsen has made out a good case for its being three nundina, i.e. intervals of eight days (Staatsr. iii. p. 375).