MEANING OF OCTOBER....... In
latin 'Octo' means eight.
October is therefore the
eighth month. As October is the
tenth month in our
calendar this seems rather
strange. The answer lies
in the changes made to our
calendar since the
months were given their
names. In fact October
was initially the eighth month in
the Roman calendar. This was a
lunar calendar starting at the
Vernal equinox and spanning
304 days divided
into ten months of 30 or 31
days in length. 61
winter days were not assigned
a month until
around 713 BC when January
and February were
added and the length of the
months altered to 29 days.
February was assigned only 28
days. Now
the year had 355 days. To help
the calendar years
match up to solar years a leap
month was declared
and added occasionally, usually
every other year.
This complex system was only
formally superseded
with the introduction of the
Gregorian calendar in 1582.
This system of 12 months, 365
days a year
and a regular 366 day leap year
to match up solar
activity is now used almost
worldwide.
MEANING OF ODE - ODES.......
1- A lyric poem of some length,
usually of a serious or
meditative nature and having
an elevated style and
formal stanzaic structure...
2- A - a. A choric song of
classical Greece, often
accompanied by a dance and
performed at a public
festival or as part of a drama....
B- A classical Greek poem
modeled on the choric ode
and usually having a three-part
structure consisting
of a strophe, an antistrophe,
and an epode.... OCTOBER
ODES
My Opera
