A saeculum (plural saecula) is a length of time roughly equal to the potential lifetime of a person or, equivalently, the complete renewal of a human population. == Background == Originally it meant the time from the moment that something happened (for example the founding of a city) until the point in time that all people who had lived at the first moment had died.
A saeculum (plural saecula) is a length of time roughly equal to the potential lifetime of a person or, equivalently, the complete renewal of a human population. == Background == Originally it meant the time from the moment that something happened (for example the founding of a city) until the point in time that all people who had lived at the first moment had died.
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