Sacrobosco proposed that Augustus’ month had a supposedly inferior number of days than Julius’, so the Senate fixed this by stealing a day from February. To avoid having three long months in a row, the senate also switched the lengths of September and October, and of November and December. This narrative is demonstrably false, particularly because it conflicts with surviving wall paintings that show the months were already irregular before Julius reformed them, sitert fra: [2]
Numa also gave each month an odd number of days, which was considered to be lucky, sitert fra: [3]
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