The Roman Calendar - The Month Quintillus

The babylonians were renowned back then for having a really good sense of astronomy and how the earth is relating to what's going on in the sky. Some people were abusing the short fall in the calendar politically by having their term of office extended. By starting their office early or leaving it late, you could get a longer year of power. And he also gets a significant honor from this in that one of the months is now named after him. The month quintillus doesn't sound familiar to us as most of the others did. That's because that's been renamed ulius. So is july. But none of them is a historical personage. They're all mythological; some