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	Sextilis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		De esta manera, la palabra sextilis del lat n cl sico adquiri un segundo...
		He also claimed a month for himself and Sextilis became Augustus.
		It also happened to be the month his grandnephew (the future Emperor Claudius) was born, and the month in which Augustus died.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Sextilis (272 words)

	Quintilis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quintilis was the former Latin name for the fifth (later seventh) month in the Roman calendar that was after Junius and before Sextilis.
		Quintilis was renamed to July in honor of Julius Caesar, who was born in that month.
		This is one of the dies comitiales (C), when citizen committees could vote on criminal or political matters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quintilis (950 words)

	Roman to Julian Conversion: Analysis A.U.C. 746 = 8 B.C.
		He noted that Suetonius, Augustus 31.2, recorded that Sextilis was renamed "Augustus" at the same time, and that Censorinus 22.16 dates that event to the emperor's 20th year, the consulate of M. Censorinus and C. Asinius Gallus, i.e.
		He notes that two of the reasons given for choosing Sextilis are (a) that this was the month of his first consulate and (b) in this month the legions on the Janiculum gave their loyalty to him.
		Sacrobosco asserted that, when Sextilis was renamed Augustus, its length had to be changed from 30 days to 31 days, since Augustus (the emperor) was "envious because his month was shorter than the month Iulius".
	www.geocities.com /christopherjbennett/ptolemies/chron/roman/008bc.htm (4635 words)

	Roman Calendar - August (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		August was originally called Sextilis, or the sixth month (after March).
		It was renamed in honor of Augustus Caesar, the most revered of the Roman emperors.
		The author of the impossible Christian wet dream "The City of God" spent his days in North Africa attending gladiatorial games, where he was admittedly addicted to the sight of death in the arena.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/w/x/wxk116/RomanCalendar/aug26.htm (664 words)

	Months of the Year
		As we can see, the first six months of the year were named for their characteristics, the seasonal activities and deities who presided over them.
		The other months were named according to their numerical order; so the fifth was called Quintilis, Sextilis the sixth, and the rest, September (Septembris), October (Octobris), November (Novembris) and December (Decembris).
		August was originally named Sextilis after the sixth month of the Roman civil year.
	www.duboislc.net /read/Worksheets/months/months.html (686 words)

	Dates in the Roman Format or Style
		Even after the old calendar was revised by adding January and February to the beginning of the year, Sextilis (August) continued with its former name.
		Sextilis was renamed Augustus in 27 B.C. as a tribute to the “first Roman emperor”, Augustus.
		In addition to changing Sextilis to Augustus, speculation states that he took one day from February and one from September to add to his month, making it 31 days; because he apparently did not wish to have August with fewer days than Julius (July).
	www.logofiles.com /aug-history.html (382 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sextilis was renamed to August in honor of the first Roman emperor, Augustus Caesar, because it came after the month of July (named after his granduncle...
		Sextilis 30 Quintilis 31 Junius 29 Junius 30 Junius 30 June 30 Septemris 31 Sextilis 29 Quintilis 31 Julius 31 Julius 31 July 31 Octobris 30 Septembris 29 Sextilis 29 Sextilis 30 Augustus...
		Sextilis the sixth, and the rest, Septembris, Octobris, Novembris and Decembris.
	sextilis.iqexpand.com (357 words)

	Roman Calendar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The calendar then was nominally ten months long (304 days), beginning in March in the spring and ending in December with the autumn planting.
		With the advice of the Alexandrian astronomer Sosigenes, the missing ninety days were intercalated, extending the ultimus annus confusionis, "the last year of confusion," as Macrobius called it, to 445 and causing March 1 in the Republican calendar to fall on January 1, 45 BC in the new
		And, because the solar year is approximately a quarter day longer than the calendar year, a single intercalary day was to be inserted every four years, when February 24 would be counted twice.
	www.legioviferrata.com /id32.html (1214 words)

	Poznań University Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The primer was printed by Piotr Sextilis of Obrzycko in Poznań in 1556.
		Piotr Sextilis, the printer, is an obscure person of whom we know very little.
		There is only a short note in the city's public records stating that the printer had been printing some books for Jan Patruus, a Poznań bookseller, in 1558.
	lib.amu.edu.pl /angielska/wydra2.htm (166 words)

	Ancient Rome - Calendar
		The remaining 61 1/4 days were apparently ignored, resulting in a gap during the winter season.
		The months bore the names Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Juniius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, and December - the last six names correspond to the Latin words for the numbers 5 through 10.
		The new Julian calendar adjusted the number of days in those months with twenty-nine days, adding one or two for a total of ten days altogether, and arranged for leap years.
	www.crystalinks.com /romecalendar.html (1321 words)

	roman history, roman civilization
		August was, before Augustus, called Sextilis (the sixth month of the
		Sextilis was renamed August in honor of Octavian (honored with the name Augustus).
		Between the feasting with Hercules and the holiday for slaves, these mid-August days must have afforded a nice vacation from the harvest.
	abacus.bates.edu /~mimber/Rciv/hercules.htm (701 words)

	Roman to Julian Conversion: Analysis A.U.C. 730 = 24 B.C.
		Roman to Julian Conversion: Analysis A.U.C. The most important data concerning the operation of the Roman calendar between A.U.C. and A.U.C. is given by pOxy 61.4175, first published in 1999 (A. Jones, The Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus (P.Oxy.
		This papyrus shows that the eighth Roman month was called "Sextilis" at this time and that it was 31 days long.
		This confirms that the month was renamed in A.U.C. and that the Augustan reform did not change the lengths of the months set by Caesar.
	www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Egypt/ptolemies/chron/roman/024bc.htm (273 words)

	History Essay 58 - Gregorian Calendar
		The early Egyptians may have been the first to employ a solar year of 365 days because of those lunar inaccuracies, using 12 months of 30 days with 5 days tacked on as a short month at the end.
		To straighten out the seasons immediately, Caesar declared that 46 BC would have 445 days, which the Romans called "the year of confusion." He also took a day from February to give "his" month, the month of his birth - formerly Quintilis (5th month) but now renamed "Julius" an extra day: 31.
		His nephew, Octavius, who would become Caesar Augustus, did the same, renaming Sextilis "Augustus", stealing another day from February, leaving it with 28.
	www.naciente.com /essay58.htm (803 words)

	Calendars Are A Riot!!
		A bissextile day would be added between February 23 and 24 (called a "point in time") every fourth year to correct the quarter day per year error.
		To honor their leader, the Senate named him Augustus (the venerable one) Caesar, and in his honor changed the month of Sextilis to Augustus (August).
		Sextilis was chosen because many fortunate events had occurred during that month.
	gil.davis.home.att.net /today.html (1377 words)

	Facts and Figures: All Things Roman
		Romulus, the founder of Rome, created the Roman calendar of 304 days with ten months, with the New Year starting with month of March.
		The months after June were Quintilis (fifth month) and Sextilis (sixth month).
		During or after the reign of the first emperor, Augustus Caesar, the great-nephew of Julius Caesar, the month of Quintilis was changed to July after Julius Caesar, while the month of Sextilis was changed to August, after Augustus.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/allthings.html (1710 words)

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		March, April, May, June, July, August were termed Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Junius, Quintilis and Sextilis.
		Later, during the reign of Emperor Augustus this anomaly was adjusted and set right by excluding leap years for many years till the period tallied.
		To honour the Emperor, the eighth month Sextilis was renamed August.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005010100500300.htm&date=2005/01/01/&prd=yw& (364 words)

	Render Unto Caesar
		But February, the unlucky month of Terminalia, was left unchanged, "so that the religious rites of the gods of the nether world might not be disturbed." In this manner Caesar gave to seven months 31 days (the lucky odd number) and to four months 30 days (the unlucky even number).
		But such a foolish gesture of vanity is out of character in one of Rome's greatest and most far-sighted emperors, and the accusation against him was disproved when Italian archeologists uncovered monuments with inscriptions clearly showing that Sextilis had 31 days before it was re-named August.
		This pattern was in continuous use until it was readjusted in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII.
	personal.ecu.edu /mccartyr/caesar.html (2011 words)

	Clio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Prior to that, the Romans had been using a lunar calendar, as were most world cultures of the time.
		Quintilis and Sextilis were later renamed after Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus.)
		A calendar of twelve lunar cycles seems like a good match for the solar year when one is observing the seasons and the moons by eye.
	www.inu.org /clio/gregorian.htm (1286 words)

	The Story of our Calendar and Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		After his conquest of Egypt, Julius Caesar hired the Egyptian mathematician Sosigenes (some says he was Greek or Macedonian) to promote a calendar like the one he saw in Egypt.
		Over the years, the months numbers were replaced by the names of the people they wanted to honor.
		Like the 5th month Quintilis was renamed in honor of Julius Caesar, the 6th month Sextilis was renamed in honor of Augustus....
	www.sunlighttravel.com /parallel-life/calendar/roman.html (1236 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Time Works"
		The months in the original Roman calendar were Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Junius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November and December.
		Similarly, Sextilis was renamed to honor Augustus, hence August.
		Augustus also moved a day from Februarius to Augustus so that it would have the same number of days as Julius.
	people.howstuffworks.com /time6.htm (521 words)

	A Brief History of the Western Calendar
		The next is called May, from Maia, the mother of Mercury, to whom it is sacred; then June follows, so called from Juno; some, however, derive them from the two ages, old and young, majores, being their name for older, and juniores for younger men.
		To the other months they gave denominations according to their order; so the fifth was called Quintilis, Sextilis the sixth, and the rest, September, October, November, and December.
		Afterwards Quintilis received the name of Julius, from Caesar, who defeated Pompey; as also Sextilis that of Augustus, from the second Caesar, who had that title.
	www.exovedate.com /a_history_of_the_calendar.html (2178 words)

	transwiki:Sex- - Wiktionary
		A sextant is a measuring instrument in the shape of 1/6 of a circle
		Sextilis, the sixth month of the early Roman calendar
		This page was last modified 01:31, 30 June 2005.
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Transwiki:Sex- (70 words)

	Julian calendar
		In 44 bce, at the instance of Mark Antony, the month Quintilis was renamed Julius in honor of Julius Caesar.
		At some later point, probably by the consuls Asinius Gallus and Marcius Censorinus in 7 bce, the month Sextilis was renamed Augustus in honor of Augustus Caesar, Julius Caesar's successor.
		Since it wouldn't do to have Augustus's month shorter than Julius's, a day was taken from Februarius and added to Augustus.
	www.sizes.com /time/cal_julian.htm (379 words)

	Developing Time Measurement - Page 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Roman Emporer Augustus continued the use of the Julian Calendar.
		In 44 B.C.E. Quintilis was renamed 'Julius' (July) in honor of Julius Caesar, and in 8 B.C.E. Sextilis became 'Augustus' in honor of emperor Augustus.
		When Augustus had a month named after him, he wanted his month to be a full 31 days long, so he removed a day from February and shifted the length of the other months so that August would have 31 days.
	arapaho.nsuok.edu /~wilkinso/time6.html (358 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Sextilis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
		Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Sextilis; all previous versions may be viewed here.
		They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Sextilis (207 words)

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