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Why is AD in Latin and BC in English how come a Roman did this mistake?
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∙ 13y ago
The Romans did not make up the concepts of AD and BC. We merely took the Latin words for "in the year of our Lord" to use for our common era. The Romans lived by a time concept they called "ab urbe condita" (AUC), counting "from the founding of the city."
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