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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (11701)	8/3/1998 10:49:00 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I guess this would in all "likely hood" be Sextember 3, if Caesar had gotten cold feet at the Rubicon. Did you know? "August" comes from the Latin word "augustus," which in turn derives from "augere," a verb meaning "to make grow" or "to increase." The first Roman emperor was given the title "Augustus" to reflect his lofty status. During his reign (in 8 B.C.), the Roman Senate voted to use the title to replace the name of the month "Sextilis" in their calendar to honor their grand leader. English speakers inherited the name of the month of August with the rest of the Julian calendar, but it wasn't until the mid-1600s that the term came to be used generically in English to refer to someone with imperial qualities. m-w.com