Re: OT: Roman Calendar (was Re: USAGE: syllables)
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 14, 2003, 18:50 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Well, one source is not gonna be enough to fight the at least four
> independent sources I have, and the fact that there's just no reason why we
> would have been taught something wrong for so long. I am 100% sure that in
> the Classical Latin of the time of Cicero, which is was people are usually
> taught, the month was "Quintilis" and nothing else.
I wouldn't be surprised if _Quinctilis_ were an alternate, archaic,
spelling convention. Not all words had fixed spellings in Latin, after
all.
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