Note 309 — LXI (F XIV, 4)
Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation
Reading prid. Kal. instead of a. d. II. Kal., which Tyrrell calls audacius in Schutz. But absolute nonsense is not to be kept even for a MS.
(1) Cicero says that he has been thirteen days at Brundisium. In the next letter he tells Atticus he arrived on the 17th. That, in the Roman way of counting, brings it to prid. (29th).
(2) Either the date at the end of the letter is wrong, or prid. must be used here
(3) There is no such date properly as a. d. II. Kal. The day before prid. is a. d. III.
In regard to dates we must remember that Cicero is using the præ-Julian calendar, in which all months, except February, March, May, July, and October, had twenty-nine days. These last four had thirty-one and February twenty-eight.