Fasti

pl. (Lat., from fast us, fixed, i. e. fixed day.] (Roman Antiq.) Numa Pompilius (в. с. 715-в. с. 673) instituted the custom of marking monthly records of the feasts, games, ., observed at Rome, on tables of stone. These, preserved by the priests, became the calendar by which the course of public busine and of justice was regulated. C. Flavius copied these Fasti, B. c. 306, and exhibited them in the Forum; and they subsequently became a kind of abridged annals, recording the names of public magistrates and the most important political events. A series of marble tables of Fasti, relating chiefly to the holders of the consular dignity, was discovered buried in the Forum in 1547. Additional portions were dug up in 1817 and 1818. Fastid'ious, a. [Fr. fastidieuz; Lat. fastidiosus fast us, arrogance.] Delicate to a fault; squeamish in fancy; difficult to please; dainty of choice; over-nice; suited with difficulty; as, a fastidious taste. Fastidiously, adv. Disdainfully; contemptuously; squeamishly.