Show ingenious plea made by rascal nobody Is worried nowadays bf ill the tact fact that the twelfth month of the year Is called the tenth december says a writer and no doubt ever the ancient romans soon got used tc the anomaly when the new year wa wac shifted back from march to january though the old names of the month were retained but there was one ol 01 them who made ingenious use of it licinius a rascally procurator at a lyons under augustus he insisted on having certain monthly payment mado made fourteen times a year arguing when december came round that at a it was the tenth month of the year and there ought to be twelve there must be two more to be accounted tor for |