| Alexander Adam - Rome - 1807 - 636 pages
...year, Cic. de legg. ii. 21. Ovid. Fast. ii. 49. Tibull. iii. i, 2. Numa, in imitation of the Greeks, divided the year into twelve months, according to the course of the moon, consisting in all of 354 days ; he added one day more, Plia. xxxiv. 7. to make the number odd, which... | |
| Alexander Adam - Rome - 1819 - 572 pages
...year, Cic. de legg. ii. 21. Ovid. Fast. ii. 49. Tibv.ll iii. 1.2. Nutna, in imitation of the Greeks, divided the year into twelve months, according to the course of the moon, consisting in all of 354 days; he added one day more, Plin. xxxiv. 7. to make the number odd, which... | |
| Alexander Adam - Rome - 1819 - 578 pages
...were forgotten after their death, Suet. Donut. 13. Ptin.Pan. 54. Numa, in imitation of the Greeks, divided the year into twelve months, according to the course of the moon, consisting in all of 35-1 days ; he added one day more, Pi in. xxxiv. 7. to make the number odd, which... | |
| East Haven (Conn.) - 1824 - 232 pages
...had first been made consul, and had obtained remarkable victories. Numa, in imitation of the Greeks, divided the year into twelve months, according to the course of the moon, consisting in all of 354 days: he added one day more to make the number odd, which was thought more... | |
| Alexander Adam - 1835 - 570 pages
...whole year ; for this anciently was the last month in the year.1" Numa, in imitation of the Greeks, divided the year into twelve months, according to the course of the moon, consisting in all of 354 days ; he added one day more, to make the number odd, which «'as thought... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1839 - 524 pages
...old kalendar continued in use till the time of Tarquinius Priscus. Numa, in imitation of the Greeks, divided the year into twelve months, according to the course of the moon, consisting in all of 354 days: according to Pliny (Hist. Nal. xxxiv. 7), ho afterwards added one day... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1839 - 526 pages
...old kalendar continued in use till the time of Tarquinius Priscus. Numa, in imitation of the Greeks, divided the year into twelve months, according to the course of the moon, consisting in all of 354 days: according to Pliny (Hist. Nut. xxxiv. 7), he afterwards added one day... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1839 - 518 pages
...old kalendar continued in use till the time of Tarquinius Priscus. Numa, in imitation of the Greeks, divided the year into twelve months, according to the course of the moon, consisting in all of 354 days : according to Pliny (Hist. Nat. xxxiv. 7), he afterwards added one day... | |
| 1839 - 518 pages
...old kalendar continued in use till the time of Tarquinius Priscus. Numa, in imitation of the Greeks, divided the year into twelve months, according to the course of the moon, consisting in all of 354 days: according to Pliny (Hist. Nat. xxxiv. 7), he afterwards added one day... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 840 pages
...(Ftbrualia,) from the sins of the whole year : for, anciently, this was the last month in the year. Numa divided the year into twelve months, according to the course of the moon, consisting in all of three hundred and fifty-four days ; and not long afterwards added one day to January,... | |
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