 | Alexander Adam - 1807 - 616 pągines
...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 - 1819 - 565 pągines
...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 - 1819 - 565 pągines
...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... | |
 | 1824 - 200 pągines
...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 - 528 pągines
...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
...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... | |
 | 1839
...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... | |
 | 1839
...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
...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
...(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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Numa, in the first place, divided the year into twelve months, according to the course of the moon. But such a lunar year would necessarily fall short of the solar year, since not every successive lunation consists of 30 days, (quia... 
