Brewer's: Æmillian Law

Made by Æmilius Mamercus the prætor. It enjoined that the oldest priest should drive a nail every year into the capitol on the ides of September (September 5).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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