Book 26
1.13
From this beginning many other errors arose, which I think it superfluous to mention here. These were done away with by Octavianus AugustusActually it was Julius Caesar; cf. Suet., Jul. 40; Aug. 31, 2; though Augustus corrected a misinterpretation of Caesar’s scheme. who, following the Greeks, corrected the confusion and brought order into this inconsistency by adopting after great deliberation the arrangement of twelve months and six hours, during which the sun in its eternal course through the twelve signs completes a whole year.
1.14
This reason for the bisextile yearSee note 2, p. 571; bisextile is the correct spelling. Rome, which will live even through the centuries, with the aid of the divine power approved and firmly established. Now let us go on to the rest of our narrative.
2.1
When the day unfavourable (as some think) for beginning great enterprises had passed, just as evening was coming on, at the motion of the prefect Salutius it was promptly and unanimously decided that, under penalty of death, no one who held high authority, or had been suspected of aiming at a higher station, should appear in public on the following morning.
