November (Roman month) November (Roman month) November (from Latin "novem", "nine") or mensis November was originally the ninth of ten months on the Roman calendar, following October ("octo", "eight") and preceding December ("decem", "ten"). It had 29 days. In the reform that resulted in a 12-month year, November became the eleventh month, but retained its name, as did the other months from September through December. A day was added to November during the Julian calendar reform in the mid-40s BC. The outstanding event during November was the Plebeian Games from the 4th through the 17th. The month had few other festivals. It was
Latin word order about 46% of cases), but this is rarer in Cicero (only 10% of cases). Several scholars have examined Latin sentences from a syntactic point of view, in particular the position of the verb. In sentences with Subject, Object, and Verb, any order is possible. However, some orders are more common than others. In a sample of 568 sentences of Caesar containing all three elements examined by Pinkster, the proportions were: An example of the typical Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order in Caesar is: A dependent infinitive, such as "interfici" "to be killed" below, also in Caesar usually precedes its verb: However,