Re: March 21st spring

On 23 Mar 2007 23:30:47 -0700, in uk.sci.astronomy , "Weatherlawyer"
<Weatherlawyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

do any of the capable historians here have any
idea what the decimal Roman calendar was like?

STFW?
http://www.roman-britain.org/calendar.htm
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/calendar/romancalendar.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0002061.html

eg
Roman calendar originally... was ten months long (304 days) and had
six months with thirty days and four with thirty-one.The winter
months, when there was no work in the fields, were not counted.
....
According to Livy (I.19), it was Numa Pompilius, the second king of
Rome (715-673 BC), who divided the year into twelve lunar months.
....
[calendar of the Roman Republic] its historical origin probably is the
publication of a revised calendar by the Decemviri in 450 BC as part
of the Twelve Tables, Rome's first code of law.

etc
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Mark McIntyre
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