[10]. He added 10 days to the normal year of 355: January, Sextilis, December, receiving two; April, June, September, November, one only. These new days were placed at the end of the months, so that the days on which religious festivals fell might remain as before.
[11]. Mommsen, Chron. 220. In no other Italian calendar of which we have any knowledge is March the first month (ib. 218 foll.): but there cannot be much doubt that these too had undergone changes. Festus (150), representing Verrius Flaccus, says, ‘Martius mensis initium fuit anni et in Latio et post Romam conditam,’ &c.
[12]. Huschke, Röm. Jahr, 11 foll.
[13]. See below, under [March 1].
[14]. Mommsen, Chron. 103 foll.
[15]. Not the real new moon, which is invisible. The period between the new moon and the first quarter varies.
[16]. Varro, L. L. 6. 27. This was the method before the publication of the calendar by Flavius: Macr. 1. 15. 9. The meaning of Covella is doubtful; it has generally been connected with cavus and κοῖλος, and explained of the ‘hollow’ crescent of the new moon. See Roscher, Lex. s. v. Iuno 586.
[17]. Aust, s. v. Iuppiter, in Roscher’s Lexicon, p. 655.
[18]. Varro, L. L. 6. 29 ‘Dies fasti, per quos praetoribus omnia verba (i. e. do, dico, addico) sine piaculo licet fari.’
[19]. Liv. 9. 46.