October (Roman month) October (Roman month) October (from Latin "octo", "eight") or mensis October was the eighth of ten months on the oldest Roman calendar. It had 31 days. October followed September (from "septem", "seven") and preceded November ("novem", "nine"). After the calendar reform that resulted in a 12-month year, October became the tenth month, but retained its numerical name, as did the other months from September through December. Some of the observances in October marked the close of the season for military campaigning and farming, which commenced in March ("Martius", "Mars' month"). October was under the guardianship "(tutela)" of Mars. The Romans
Latin word order emphatic one such as "omnis" "all": This also applies when a participle is used instead of an adjective: The orders Adjective-Noun-Genitive and Adjective-Genitive-Noun are both common in Caesar and Cicero; but Genitive-Adjective-Noun is infrequent. There are certain words that are enclitic, that is to say, they always follow a stronger word. Typical of these are "enim" "for", "autem" "however, moreover", and "vero" "indeed", which virtually always come after the first full word of the sentence (not counting prepositions), never first. Other words which require a stronger word to lean on are "quoque" "also" and "quidem" "indeed". These can never begin