 | Alexander Adam - 1807 - 636 pàgines
...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 - 572 pàgines
...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 - 578 pàgines
...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 - 232 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 - 526 pàgines
...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 - 518 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...(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... 
