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 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,