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AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 904 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AUD-BAI
AUGUST (originally Sextilis) , the
sixth
  month in the pre-
Julian
 
Roman
  year, which received its present name from the emperor
Augustus
 . The preceding month, Quintilis, had been called " July " after
Julius
 
Caesar
 , and the emperor
chose
  August to be rechristened in his own honour because his greatest good fortune had then happened. In that month he had been admitted to the consulate, had thrice celebrated a
triumph
 , had received the
allegiance
  of the soldiers stationed on the Janiculum, had concluded the civil wars, and had subdued
Egypt
 . As July contained thirty-one days, and August only thirty, it was thought necessary to add another day to the latter month, in order that the month of
Augustus
  might not be in any respect inferior to that of
Julius
 .


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