KALENDS, the first Day of the Month, according to the Style of the Latins1. The Greeks had no Kalends; hence proverbially People are referr’d to the Greek Kalends, that is to say, to some unknown and uncertain Time. Among the Hebrews there were particular Ceremonies observed on the first Day of every Month, whereof we shall say something under the Article Neomenia, which signifies the same thing in Greek as Kalends. And the Translators of the Scripture use indifferently both these Words to denote the first Day of the Month.
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It was a Custom among the Romans, for the High-Priests to call together the People on the Day of the Calends, (from whence the Name of Calends a calando plebem,) and instruct them in the divine Duties which they were to perform that Month. Macrob. 1. Saturnal. ↩