On 3/15/2010 2:01 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: Bruce Dayton
So just what is an 'Ide' anyway and are there 'Ides' for any other
month? Inquiring minds want to know.
Interesting place and nicely done. Thanks for sharing it.
Romans counted dates backwards from three fixed points: the Nones, the
Ides and the Kalends of the following month.
The Romans originally had a 10 month lunar calender. Martius was the
first month, and the tenth month was December, then there's about 61
days of winter that weren't in any month before the next year starts.
One of my favorite bits of trivia is that the reason that months 9, 10,
11 and 12 are named 7, 8, 9 and 10 is because there were two months
added, which were named for Julius and Augustus Ceaser.
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