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 a sentence, therefore. Other words, such as "fere" "approximately" and "etiam", are frequently enclitic: In the phrase "ne ... quidem" "not even", the word "quidem" generally follows the first word of the emphasised phrase, rather than the whole phrase: Personal pronouns such as "me" "me" and "mihi" "to me" can have weak and strong forms in Latin. When weak they tend to be found early in the sentence, either after the first word (which can be a conjunction such as "cum" "when" or "et" "and") or after an enclitic such as "enim", if present: Contrast sentences like the following, where