| The indiction itself, and every one of the years composing it, began on the 1st of September of the calendar year. |
| Consular dating had already been abolished in 537, when Justinian introduced dating by the emperor's regnal year and the indiction. |
| And in the blizzard of announcements late Friday, there was little indiction from regulators that they would tie themselves to specific time frames for action. |
| Before its adoption the usual practice in Latin countries was to distinguish the years by their number in the cycle of indiction. |
| The general tribute, or indiction, as it was called, was derived largely from the taxation of landed property. |
| As a cross-check and source of additional information, many manuscripts give the year according to the year of the indiction. |
