To: SunkenCiv
I thought the months moved back because Julius inserted his July and Augustus his August. Not true?
To: Zirondelle76; SunkenCiv
That is what I understood as well: Julius and Augustus got their months inserted in the summer - moving September (seven), October (eight) and November (nine) and December (en) back. Depending on the person interpreting months before (and after!) this change, I can see the date getting “moved” around hundreds of eyars later.
Also, one person could have correctly read and interpreted and written the date, a second person decided the “correction” was wrong based on a different calendar, then a third trying to re-re-correct the first and second.
16 posted on
10/17/2018 6:01:13 AM PDT by
Robert A Cook PE
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To: Zirondelle76
Why ruin a perfectly good story?
22 posted on
10/17/2018 6:52:45 AM PDT by
null and void
(The big problem is that the republicans don't keep their campaign promises and the democrats do!)
To: Zirondelle76
The Calendar of Romulus started on March 1st. So there!!!
(What a mess! Ten months, 31 or 30 days each, 10 day weeks, one day of 'weekend', and 51 days left over at the end of the year! yuck!)
23 posted on
10/17/2018 7:00:55 AM PDT by
null and void
(The big problem is that the republicans don't keep their campaign promises and the democrats do!)
To: Zirondelle76
I thought the months moved back because Julius inserted his July and Augustus his August. Not true?
I believe that July and August simply replaced the older Quintilis (5th month) and
Sextilis (6th) month. January and February were added to the Roman calendar centuries before Pompeii.
25 posted on
10/17/2018 7:24:39 AM PDT by
hanamizu
To: Zirondelle76
Nope, sorry. Those two months were merely renamed.
29 posted on
10/17/2018 2:40:45 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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