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It has been recorded from the earliest days of the Christian holiday. Maybe even before that with its predecessors.
by JJMcJ 3y ago
It has been recorded from the earliest days of the Christian holiday. Maybe even before that with its predecessors.
- floren 3y agoSeneca in a letter to Lucilius, circa 62 AD: > It is the month of December, and yet the city is at this very moment in a sweat. Licence is given to the general merrymaking. Everything resounds with mighty preparations, – as if the Saturnalia differed at all from the usual business day! So true it is that the difference is nil, that I regard as correct the remark of the man who said: "Once December was a month; now it is a year." (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_18 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Let...)