Infrapink (he/his/him)<p>In the first <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Roman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Roman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/calendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>calendar</span></a>, the year began on the day of the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/moon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>moon</span></a>&#39;s <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/FirstVisibleCrescent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FirstVisibleCrescent</span></a> after the northward <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/equinox" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>equinox</span></a> (which in <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Rome" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rome</span></a> is the spring equinox). Since the Romans thought <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/EvenNumbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EvenNumbers</span></a> were unlucky, <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/months" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>months</span></a> could have 29 or 31 days, but there were only 10 months in the year; after Decembris, there was a long period outside any <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/month" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>month</span></a> that the Romans just thought of as &quot;like, <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/winter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>winter</span></a>, I guess?&quot;</p>