单词 | Roman calendar |
例句 | Faced with an old Roman calendar that was itself drifting out of sync with the solar year, he recognized the Alexandrian calendar as a worthy model for a proposed revision. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The deep dislike and distrust the Romans felt toward Cleopatra only increased when Caesar reformed the Roman calendar to match the Egyptian method of tracking the year. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z There was an ever-increasing number of feast days in the Roman calendar. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z In the Roman calendar, this is the month of Juno, goddess of youthful energy, rejuvenation and the waxing moon. Poster poems: June 2012-06-15T13:46:24Z On the old Roman calendar, October was the eighth month. Editorial Roundup: 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z The first time it’s pinned down to 25 December, or at least to the “Eighth day before the Kalends of January” is the year AD354, in the Roman calendar of Philocalus. The religious case for Christmas is well known. But there’s a scientific one too | Alice Roberts 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z But it is dated to 16 days before the "calends" of November in the old Roman calendar style - which is 17 October in our modern dating method. Pompeii's destruction date could be wrong 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z He made that first year 445 days long, so that the transition between the old Roman calendar and the new one would work. Google Doodle Marks 434 Years of the Gregorian Calendar 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z But, even as it grew, people continued to use other systems like the Roman calendar. Now You Know: When Did People Start Saying That the Year Was 'A.D.'? 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z To address the discrepancy between the old Roman calendar and the new one, Caesar made that first new year 445 days long. The Tangled History of Leap Years 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Originally, the Roman calendar followed this trend as well. Happy new year! Wait, really — why do we celebrate it on January 1? 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Twelve years later by the Roman calendar and 15 minutes on a parent's body clock, I was still on Clancy's bag. My Favorite Summer Job 2013-10-01T04:00:00Z Some things in the history of his last days, and in the indications of beatitude recorded, strongly recall the parallel history of the saints of the Roman calendar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z We can not, however, help being struck with the superior accuracy of the Jewish, when compared with the confusion and change that prevailed in the Greek and Roman calendar. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z Today’s Gregorian calendar derives from the Babylonian, Egyptian, Jewish and Roman calendars. A Chronicle of Timekeeping 2011-12-31T05:15:09.740Z Julius Caesar oversaw a drastic and decidedly necessary overhaul of the Roman calendar. Happy new year! Wait, really — why do we celebrate it on January 1? 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z The Roman calendar was even more complicated than the Greek, and not so good. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z This list was the origin of the public Roman calendar, in which the days were divided into weeks of eight days each, and indicated by the letters A-H. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z In the ancient Roman calendar the first day of every month was invariably called the calends. Our Calendar 2011-05-25T02:00:17.450Z The information which Cæsar had received from the astronomer Sosigenes in Egypt, enabled him to alter and amend the Roman calendar. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Falling on the 15th of March, May, July, and October, or the 13th day of any other month, the ides signified the middle of the month on the Roman calendar. Not Just Julius: The Many Meanings of The Ides of March 2011-03-15T16:40:00Z The battle took place on July 18, 390, that ill-omened dies Alliensis which long perpetuated in the Roman calendar the memory of the deepest shame the republic had ever known. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race One of the most useful was the reform of the Roman calendar. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. By this it may be seen how Cæsar reformed the Roman calendar. Our Calendar 2011-05-25T02:00:17.450Z Footnote 5: An epocha of the Roman calendar instituted by Constantine the Great. A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 In the Roman calendar, March—or, in Latin, Martius, the month of Mars—was the first month of the year. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 May, the fifth month of our modern year, was the third of the old Roman calendar. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 It was designed to commemorate the reformation of the Roman calendar by Julius Caesar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" It was a Sunday morning, the twenty-fourth of August—a day sacred in the Roman calendar to the memory of Saint Bartholomew. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 Here indeed he found saints brought to view, but not such as figured in the Roman calendar. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan But luck was on his side and he succeeded, making his term as Pontifex Maximus notable by revising the Roman calendar so thoroughly that, with only slight changes, it is used to-day. A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. Robertson observes, that all these absurd institutions were cherished from the superstitious of the age believing the legendary histories of those saints who crowd and disgrace the Roman calendar. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 The day of their martyrdom was the 7th of March, as it is marked in the most ancient martyrologies, and in the Roman calendar as old as the year 354, published by Bucherins. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March She has seized the spirit of the dead Roman calendar, and put it into this rosary. Faith Gartney's Girlhood In the Roman calendar there is abundant evidence that Mars was at one time an agricultural god as well as a god of war. Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times These and twelve more agreed to murder Cæsar on the 15th of March, called in the Roman calendar the Ides of March, when he went to the senate-house. Young Folks' History of Rome We all know that the second of November is All Souls' Day, and that it is the day dedicated in the Roman calendar to the commemoration of all those who have departed "in the faith." Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 The Roman calendar seems to have been adopted generally through the western church. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March With the adoption of the Roman calendar some of the festivals were displaced, e.g. in Gaul, where the Calends of January took the place of Samhain, the ritual being also transferred. The Religion of the Ancient Celts Ides, the name given in the Roman calendar to certain days that divide the month; in March, May, July, and October they fall on the 15th, in the rest on the 13th. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge The Roman calendar of festivals has its origin in the regularly recurring rites of the earliest Latin husbandman. Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero That name, with the addition of saint, is inserted in the Roman calendar; and the saint, by a rare felicity, is crowned with the praises of the historians and philosophers of an enlightened age. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 For instance, there are many saints in the Roman calendar whose individuality it would not be easy to prove. Literary Blunders Where Midsummer was already observed, the influence of the Roman calendar would confirm that observance. The Religion of the Ancient Celts September, the ninth month of the year, so called as having been the seventh in the Roman calendar. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge She was proclaimed a saint by the grateful German clergy; but her name has never found a place in the Roman calendar. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 One remarkable and darable reform was undertaken and carried through amidst the jests of Cicero and the other wits of the time--the revision of the Roman calendar. Caesar: a Sketch Hence Julius Caesar rendered a great service to science by the reform of the Roman calendar, which was exclusively under the control of the college of pontiffs, or general religious overseers. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements Now, indeed, our capitano did yelp; now did the crew yelp, invoking all the saints of the Roman calendar, instead of attending to the ship. Travels in Morocco, Volume 1. Hence Julius Caesar rendered a great service to science by the reform of the Roman calendar, which was exclusively under the control of the college of pontiffs. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. It was never forgotten, and the day of the battle of Allia was ever after a black day in the Roman calendar. General History for Colleges and High Schools Some held for the Roman calendar, others for the Greek calendar, and the horrors of a chronological schism distracted the monastery. Penguin Island When the Roman calendar had fallen into such confusion that it had become absolutely necessary to rectify it, Julius Caesar brought Sosigenes the astronomer from Alexandria. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science |
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