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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 555 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JUNE , the See also:

sixth See also:month in the See also:Christian See also:calendar, consisting of See also:thirty days. See also:Ovid (See also:Fasti, vi. 25) makes See also:Juno assert that the name was expressly given in her See also:honour. Elsewhere (Fasti, vi. 87) he gives the derivation a junioribus, as May had been derived from majores, which may be explained as in allusion either to the two months being dedicated respectively to youth and See also:age in See also:general, or to the seniors and juniors of the See also:government of See also:Rome, the See also:senate and the See also:comitia curiata in particular. Others connect the See also:term with the See also:gentile name See also:Junius, or with the consulate of Junius See also:Brutus. Probably, .however, it originally denoted the month in which crops grow to ripeness. In the old Latin calendar June was the See also:fourth month, and in the so-called See also:year of See also:Romulus it is said to have had thirty days; but at the See also:time of the See also:Julian reform of the calendar its days were only twenty-nine. To these See also:Caesar added the thirtieth. The Anglo-See also:Saxons called June " the dry month," " midsummer month," and, in contradistinction to See also:July, " the earlier mild month." The summer See also:solstice occurs in June. See also:Principal festival days in this month: 1th June, St See also:Barnabas; 24th June, Midsummer See also:Day (Nativity of St See also:John the Baptist); 29th June, St See also:Peter.

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