Citations:Undecimber

English citations of Undecimber

• 1854, Edward Greswell, “On the Nundinal Calendars of ancient Italy”, in Origines kalendariæ Italicæ, page 378:

  It is agreed too that December was the last of the terms in such a nomenclature, which designated its own order and seat in the calendar by its own name; that there was no Undecimber, which would have pointed to the eleventh place, nor any Duodecimber, which would have designated the twelfth.

• 1906, Herbert Baldwin Foster (tr.), Dio's Annals of Rome‎^[1], volume 4, book 54 (in Ancient Greek), translation of Τάδε ἔνεστιν ἐν τῷ πεντηκοστῷ τετάρτῳ τῶν Δίωνος Ῥωμαϊκῶν by Cassius Dio Cocceianus, published c. 220 [2], page 128:

  Καὶ ἐς τοσοῦτόν γε κακοτροπίας ἐχώρησεν ὥστε, ἐπειδή τινες ἐσφοραὶ κατὰ μῆνα παρ´ αὐτοῖς ἐγίγνοντο, τεσσαρεσκαίδεκα αὐτοὺς ποιῆσαι, λέγων τὸν μῆνα τοῦτον τὸν Δεκέμβριον καλούμενον δέκατον ὄντως εἶναι, καὶ δεῖν διὰ τοῦτο αὐτοὺς καὶ τοὺς δύο τοὺς ὑστάτους, ὧν τὸν μὲν ἑνδέκατον τὸν δὲ δωδέκατον ὠνόμαζε, νομίζειν, καὶ τὰ χρήματα τὰ ἐπιβάλλοντα αὐτοῖς ἐσφέρειν.

  Kaì es tosoûtón ge kakotropías ekhṓrēsen hṓste, epeidḗ tines esphoraì katà mêna par´ autoîs egígnonto, tessareskaídeka autoùs poiêsai, légōn tòn mêna toûton tòn Dekémbrion kaloúmenon dékaton óntōs eînai, kaì deîn dià toûto autoùs kaì toùs dúo toùs hustátous, hôn tòn mèn hendékaton tòn dè dōdékaton ōnómaze, nomízein, kaì tà khrḗmata tà epibállonta autoîs esphérein.

  His abuses went so far that in some cases where the population paid tribute by the month he made the months fourteen in number. He declared that this month called Decem-ber was really the tenth, and for that reason it was also necessary to count in the last two months (of which he called one Undecimber and the other Duodecimber), and to contribute the money that was due for him.

• 1919 November, Roscoe Lamont, “The Roman Calendar and Its Reformation by Julius Caesar”, in Popular Astronomy, volume XXVII, number 9, page 589:

  Thirty years after the establishment of the Julian calendar a governor of Gaul, appointed by Augustus, made the year consist of fourteen months in places where the people paid taxes by the month. He told them that December was really the tenth month (decem, ten), and therefore it was necessary to add two more, which he called Undecimber and Duodecimber, and made them pay taxes for those two.

• 1937, Philip Whitwell Wilson, The Romance of the Calendar, page 112:

  Here was indeed a surgical operation, and we have a sidelight of what was involved in "the year of confusion" as it was called. According to Dion Cassius, the historian, there was a governor in Gaul who insisted that, in the lengthened year, two months' extra taxes should be paid! The extra months were called Undecimber and Duodecimber. Julius Caesar determined that never again should the calendar fall into a similar condition.

• 1997 January, Vilma Kadlečková, “Longing for Blood”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 92, number 1 (in Czech), translation of Mé rty budou toužit po krvi by Vilma Kadlečková, pages 157, translation by Martin Klima and Bruce Sterling, of "Mé rty budou toužit po krvi" in Základna 7 (1995):

  3. hrudna 644 ¶ Zvláštní pocit, držet v ruce deník, který jsem psala kdysi! ¶ Je to víc než sedm let. ¶ Okna zavátá sněhem, oheň v krbu praskající; tak choulíc se zimou a v hazuce zabalená čtu tyto stránky. Ale stále jsem to já, Taskre Ašterat, ničím nezměněná.

  Diary of Ashterat: Undecimber 3, 644 ¶ What a strange sensation to page back over this diary again, after more than seven years! ¶ The windowsills are heaped with winter snow, the fire crackles in the hearth, I’m muffled in a blanket and reading these pages. Seven years, but I am still Ashterat the Taskre, unchanged.

• 1998, Authur Griffith, Java Master Reference, IDG Books Worldwide, page 163:

  UNDECIMBER
      public final static int UNDECIMBER
  This is an artificial name that represents the thirteenth month of a lunar calendar.

• 2003, Philip Ward, “Undecimber”, in His Enamel Mug, Oleander Press, page 15:

  Undecimber the unenviable, thirteenth month of the thirteenth year