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 In terms of transformational grammar, the sentence can be analysed as being derived from *"si tuus parens haec tibi diceret" by raising "haec" and "tibi" to earlier in the sentence. A functionalist, on the other hand, would say that "haec" naturally comes first as the topic, then "si" in its normal place, then the unemphatic pronoun, without anything being moved. Latin word order The word order of classical Latin is relatively free. Subject, Object, and Verb can come in any order; adjectives and possessives can go before or after their noun, and so on. A commonly found feature of Latin