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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DAH-DEM |
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DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten) , the last month of the year. In the Roman calendar, traditionally ascribed to Romulus
incorrect, was retained for the last or twelfth month of the year as now divided. In the Romulian calendar December had thirty days ; Numa reduced the number to twenty-nine ; Julius
Ovid (Fasti
Horace " libertate Decembri utere " (Sat. ii. 7). Martial applies to the month the epithet canus (hoary), and Ovid styles it gelidus (frosty) and fumosus (smoky). In the reign of Commodus it was temporarily styled Amazonius, in honour of the emperor's mistress, whom he had had painted as an Amazon. The Saxons
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