[net.followup] Naming the Months

rew (10/27/82)

Having consulted my dictionary, here are Webster's derivations
of the names of the months:

March -- sacred to the god Mars and the first month of the Roman calendar
April -- 

rew (10/27/82)

Let me try this again:

Webster's derivations of the names of the months:

March -- sacred to the god Mars and the first month of the Roman calendar
April -- probably from the name of an Etruscan goddes of love
May   -- from the name of a goddess associated with Vulcan
June  -- the goddess Juno
July  -- Julius Caesar
August - Augustus Caesar
September -- Seventh 
October -- Eigth
November -- Ninth
December -- Tenth
January -- sacred to Janus the two faced god (but not the first month)
February -- from the name of a feast of purification held on the
	fifteenth of the month

Bob Warren
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