What would the Romans have called 44 B.C. at the time?

They wouldn't have called it B.C, right?





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What would the Romans have called 44 B.C. at the time?
AUC 709, which was the year Julius Caesar was assassinated.
Reply:I thought it would be XLIV Ante Christum.
Reply:The Romans would have called it "the year of the consulship of Gaius Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony" After Caesar's assassination, A man named Publius Cornelius Dolabella became consul; thus the latter part of the year became "the consulship of Publius Cornelius Dolabella and Mark Anthony"





A few Roman historians used AUC, Ab Urbe Condita, which means "After our city's founding", but its importance should not be overstated. For the vast majority of Romans, they identified years with whoever was Consul. Heck, even Julius Caesar uses this system in his commentaries.
Reply:The Romans took care to count the time since the founding of the city, but events which the Collegium Pontificum recorded were kept according to the consuls elected for the year.





So folks at the time referred to events of that year as occurring during the consulship of Julius Ceasar and Marc Anthony.
Reply:Romans identified years into two ways :


1) Ab Urbe Condita, from Foundation of Rome (april 21st 753 Bc,) so if the day would have been after 21 april the year would have been 709 AUC


2) from the names of the Consuls elected in the year (the Year of Marius and Sulla, for example).
Reply:Just a year before, Julius Caesar reformed the Roman calendar. Under the old system, yearly adjustments had been needed to bring the calender back in line with the seasons. After adding a few additional months to the end of 46 BCE in order to bring it all back in line, Caesar instituted the Julian Calender, a calendar that is very similar to the Gregorian calendar we use today.





Years were sometimes dated from the founding of Rome, which was believed to have been in 753 BCE.





Doing the math, this makes our year of 44 BCE, the year 710 AUC under the Julian Calendar.





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Reply:Another method of dating, rarely used, was to indicate the year anno urbis conditae, or "in the year of the founded city" (abbreviated AUC), where "city" meant Rome. (It is often incorrectly given that AUC stands for ab urbe condita, which is the title of T. Livy's history of Rome.) Several epochs were in use by Roman historians. Modern historians usually adopt the epoch of Varro, which we place in 753 BC.
Reply:No that is how we date stuff as before Christ and after the Christian area.


They had other ways of keeping time that isn't like what we have today. I mean how did they know they were before Christ?