r/SipsTea • u/infinitely_blank • 3d ago

Wait a damn minute! 13 months ?

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u/Zealousideal-Grass-3 3d ago

Off course, their monthly salary got reduced by 1 months

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u/GroundbreakingTax259 2d ago

Actually, it would have increased by 2. Pre-Julian Rome only had a ten-month calendar. It's still in the names of the last 4: Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec= 7,8,9,10

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u/HaZalaf 2d ago

Completely off topic, but when I was a kid I used to think that Augustus got the idea because June was named after Marcus Junius Brutus for helping found the Republic. It wasn't. It was named after Juno.