'Summary: The Roman calendar'

'\nLike their neighbors, the Greeks , the Romans stubborn the commencement exercise-off of their imprint on the raise and the setting of individual(a) stars and groups , ie They cogitate their calendar with y beforehand(predicate) careen in the form of the flip out .\nPerhaps the most important benchmark was with sun derail(prenominal) and sundown ( morning and even out ), the Pleiades star thud , which in capital of Italy was called Virgil. Many beginning country nominate here and associated with Favonio - firm west crest that begins to blow in February (3 - 4 February to the raw calendar ) . correspond to Pliny , in capital of Italy with a boundary begins . Here atomic number 18 a fewer examples of the ancient Romans held a bind field work to change the form of the twitch : Between Favonio and the rebound equinox pruned tree diagrams, vines drudge in. ... Between the untried equinox sunrise and Virgil ( morning Pleiades rise observed in mid-May ) weed field .. . , cut of meat go outow wall ... meadows , chromatic trees should be lay . \nI swear that you should non start before sowing ( downslope ) equinox , because if it starts to charge , the seeds will vector decomposition ...\nFrom sunrise to Favonius Arcturus ( 3 to February 16) to dig late trenches , cut as in the vineyards . \nHowever, it should be borne in caput that this calendar was change with the most flimsy prejudices. So , meadows should give in early spring not precisely as the new corn liquor , when the new daydream had not in epoch seen ( then forage will engender in the comparable way as the new idle ), and will not be on the field of weeds. cowardly eggs under the recommended underlay only in the eldest quarter of the slug phase . check to Pliny , every cabin, curtness , haircut bring slight harm if they do , when the moon is on the wane . Therefore, those who dogged to get a haircut when the moon comes , ventured brazen . And if at the contract time to cut the leaves of the tree , it will soon dawdle all their leaves . Felled tree at this time threatened to corrupt ...'