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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 993 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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OCTOBER , the eighth See also:

MONTH
MONTH (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maand, Dan. maaned, &c., and cognate with Lat. mensis, Gr. µi7v, &c., in other branches of the Indo-Germanic family; all ultimately from the root seen in the word for the moon in nearly all those languages

month of the old See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

YEAR

year, which began in See also:

March. In the See also:

JULIAN (FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS JULIANUS) (331-363)

Julian See also:

CALENDAR

calendar, while retaining its old name, it became the tenth month, and had See also:

THIRTY

thirty-one days assigned to it. The meditrinalia, when a See also:

LIBATION (Lat. libatio, from libare, to take a portion of something, to taste, hence to pour out as an offering to a deity, &c.; cf. Gr. Aeid3ew)

libation of new See also:

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine was made in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of Meditrina, were celebrated on the 11th, the faunalia on the 13th, and the equiria, when the equus October was sacrificed to See also:

Mars in the Campus See also:

MARTIUS, CARL FRIEDRICH PHILIPP VON (1794—1868)

Martius, on the 15th. Several attempts were made to rename the month in honour of the emperors. Thus it was in See also:

SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession temporarily known as Germanicus, See also:

ANTONINUS, SAINT ANTONIO PIEROZZI

Antoninus, See also:

Tacitus and Herculeus, the latter a surname of See also:

COMMODUS, LUCIUS AELIUS AURELIUS (161-192)

Commodus. The See also:

SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

senate's See also:

ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to christen it Faustinus in honour of See also:

FAUSTINA, ANNIA GALERIA

Faustina, wife of Antoninus, was equally unsuccessful. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal ecclesiastical feasts in October are those of St See also:

Luke on the 18th and of St See also:

Simon and St See also:

JUDE, THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF

Jude on the 28th. By the Slays it is called " yellow month," from the fading of the See also:

LEAF (O. Eng. leaf, cf. Dutch loof, Ger. Laub, Swed. lof, &c.; possibly to be referred to the root seen in Gr. Ma-eta, to peel, strip)

leaf; to the Anglo-See also:

SAXONS

Saxons it was known as Winterfylleth, because at this full See also:

moon (fylleth) See also:

winter was supposed to begin.

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