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From: rmb@omepd (Bob Bentley)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Counting years
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Date: Wed, 27-Aug-86 20:37:11 EDT
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In article <> smdev@csustan.UUCP (Scott Hazen Mueller) writes:
>
>In preChristian Rome, years were numbered from the semimythical founding of
>the city of Rome by Romulus and Remus.  I can't remember the actual Latin
>phrase, but I believe that it was something like "the year of the City" or
>some such.
>
I believe the Latin phrase was "ab urbe condita", usually abbreviated as AUC,
meaning "from the founding of the city".  Year 0 AUC is traditionally reckoned
as 753 BC.
-- 
Bob Bentley
          
Intel Corp. - Hillsboro, Oregon
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