Why is october the 10th month of the year and not the 8th? Like it literally has ‘octo’ meaning 8 in it’s name
It used to be!! But because the Romans added the month of July in honour of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C and then later in 8 B.C they added August after Augustus Caesar, they threw off the calendar and everyone is bitter about it.
we should totally just stab caesar
We already did that.
we should do it more than once
Motherfucker..
I was actually JUST having this conversation with T.
Like OCTober… but also DECEMber, SEPTEMber…. are all pretty obvious, but then like, NOVEM means nine… and the rest are a little screwy, I was expecting more numbers from SOME tradition… but no…
JANUS -god of beginnings
March for Mars, April “the opening”, and then a couple more obscure things…
But then straight up 7,8,9,10… until they fucked it up and then didn’t bother re-naming them…
But let’s be fair…. Fun as Rome was, and whatever good and bad came from it, it was a series of poor decisions and unfinished projects more than anyone gives it credit for.