Around 713 BC, the semi-mythical successor of Romulus, King Numa Pompilius, is supposed to have added the months of January and February, allowing the calendar to equal a standard lunar year ( 354 days ).

The tortuous nature of the chronology is indicated by Rhea Silvia's ordination among the Vestals, whose order was traditionally said to have been founded by the successor of Romulus, Numa Pompilius.

Olivier de Cazanove contends that it is difficult to admit that Liber ( who is present in the oldest calendars — those of Numa — in the Liberalia and in the month of Liber at Lavinium ) was derived from another deity.

The religious value of the boundary marker is documented by Plutarch, who ascribes to king Numa the construction of temples to Fides and Terminus and the delimitation of Roman territory.

The prototype of the ritual of inauguration of people is described in Livy's relation of the inauguration of king Numa Pompilius.

The foundation of this sacred college and the office of Pontifex Maximus is attributed to the second king of Rome, Numa Pompilius.

She is said to have married the future first pontifex maximus Numa Marcius, and by him gave birth to the future king Ancus Marcius.

Numa is reputed to have constrained the two minor gods Picus and Faunus into delivering some prophecies of things to come.

Rome's second king, Numa Pompilius ( r. 715 – 673 BC ), is said to have begun the cult of Vesta, building its house and temple as well as the Regia as the city's first royal palace.

The compound Ianus Quirinus is to be found also in the rite of the spolia opima, a lex regia ascribed to Numa, which prescribed that the third rank spoils of a defeated king or chief of an enemy army, those conquered by a common soldier, be consecrated to Ianus Quirinus.

It is believed to have been established around the time of Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome.

Although the Roman historian Livy ( 59 BC – AD 17 ) lists a series of seven kings of early Rome in his work Ab Urbe Condita, from its establishment through its earliest years, the degree to which the first four kings ( Romulus, Numa, Tullus Hostilius and Ancus Marcius ) are apocryphal is certainly open to question.

Numa Falls is a short drive south of Marble Canyon ( Canadian Rockies ) and is accessible directly by Highway 93 which cuts through the park.

Moneta is, from monere, the Adviser: like Egeria with Numa ( Tatius's son in law ) she is associated to a Sabine king ; 3.

Calculus is partly modeled on inventor Auguste Piccard ( 1884 – 1962 ), Hergé stated in an interview with Numa Sadoul: " Calculus is a reduced scale Piccard, as the real chap was very tall.

In the yearly cycle this passage is marked by the rites of the Salii, they themselves divided into two groups, one devoted to the cult of Mars ( Salii Palatini, created by Numa ) and the other of Quirinus ( Salii Collini, created by Tullus Hostilius ).

Egeria as a nymph or minor goddess of the Roman religious system is of unclear origin ; she is consistently, though not in a very clear way, associated with another figure of the Diana type ; their cult is known to have been celebrated at sacred groves, such as the site of Nemi at Aricia, and another one close to Rome, expedient for her presumed regular meetings with King Numa ; both goddesses are also associated with water gifted with wondrous, religious or medical properties ( the source in that grove at Rome was dedicated to the exclusive use of the Vestals ); their cult was associated with other, male figures of even more obscure meaning, such as one named Virbius, or a Manius Egerius, presumably a youthful male, that anyway in later years was identified with figures like Atys or Hippolyte, because of the Diana reference ( see Frazer ).

In this myth she is shown as counselor and guide to King Numa in the establishment of the original framework of laws and rituals of Rome, and in this role she is somehow uniquely in Roman mythology associated with " sacred books "; Numa ( Latin " numen " designates " the expressed will of a deity ") is reputed to have written down the teachings of Egeria in " sacred books " that he made bury with him ; when some chance accident brought them back to light some 400 years later, they were deemed by the Senate inappropriate for disclosure to the people and destroyed by their order ; what made them inappropriate was certainly of " political " nature but apparently has not been handed down by Valerius Antias, the source that Plutarch was using. Dionysius of Halicarnassus hints that they were actually kept as a very close secret by the Pontifices.

Under Romulus and Numa, the people were said to have been divided into 30 curiae and 3 tribes.

Numa was said to have authored several " sacred books " in which he had written down divine teachings, mostly from Egeria and the Muses.

It was said to have been built by king Numa Pompilius, who kept it always shut during his reign as there were no wars.

One of the shields was said to have fallen from heaven in the reign of King Numa, and eleven copies were made to protect the identity of the sacred shield, on the advice of the nymph Egeria, ' consort ' of Numa, who prophesied that wherever that shield was preserved the people would be the dominant people of the earth.

Cicero said that Numa Pompilius, the semi-legendary second king of Rome, established mercatus in conjunction with religious festivals to facilitate trade, since people had already gathered in great numbers.

The family was said to have originated in the reign of Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome, and its members held the highest offices of the state, from the early decades of the Republic to imperial times.

A variation of this account stated that Mamercus was the son of Pythagoras, who was sometimes said to have taught Numa.

The office of Flamen Dialis, and the offices of the other flamines maiores, were traditionally said to have been created by Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome, although Numa himself performed many of the rites of the Flamen Dialis.

The most popular of these were, text by Henry Pacory ;, text by Vincent Hyspa ;, a waltz ; ", text by Dominique Bonnaud / Numa Blès ;, a march ;, text by Contamine de Latour lost, but the music later reappears in ; and many more, many of which have been lost.

Most of these have been recorded by Plutarch ( Lives of Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Camillus ), Florus ( Book I, I ), Cicero ( The Republic VI, 22: Scipio's Dream ), Dio ( Dion ) Cassius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( L. 2 ).

Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome, was supposed to have been buried near the altar of Fons ( ara Fontis ) on the Janiculum.

Several books have been written about Franquin, such as Numa Sadoul's Et Franquin créa la gaffe, an exhaustive interview with the artist covering his entire career.

Saturnalia was supposed to have been held on December 17 from the time of the oldest Roman religious calendar, which the Romans believed to have been established by the legendary founder Romulus and his successor Numa.

The origin of this epithet might be either concrete, referring directly to the image of the god reproduced on coins and supposed to have been introduced by king Numa in the sanctuary at the lowest point of the Argiletum, or to a feature of the Ianus of the Porta Belli: a double gate ritually opened at the beginning of wars, or abstract, deriving metaphorically from the liminal, intermediary functions of the god themselves: both in time and space passages connected two different spheres, realms or worlds.

Additionally, Tullus Hostilius ' warlike and ferocious character seems be little more than a contrasting stereotype to the peaceable, devout Numa Pompilius ; the first Roman annalists may merely have imputed aggressive qualities to Hostilius by naively parsing his gentile name ( Hostilius meaning " hostile " in Latin ).

In ancient Roman religion, the Salii were the " leaping priests " of Mars supposed to have been introduced by King Numa Pompilius.

Gorriti also founded the newspaper The Dawn of Lima with fellow poet Numa Pompilio Yona.

Nimbus was founded in 1972 by the late bass singer Numa Labinsky, and the brothers Michael and Gerald Reynolds, and has traditionally been based at the Wyastone Leys mansion site, near Monmouth and the English / Welsh border.

April was the second month of the Roman calendar, before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC.

Although March was originally the first month in the old Roman Calendar, January became the first month of the calendar year under either Numa or the Decemvirs about 450 BC ( Roman writers differ ).

January became the first month of the calendar year either under King Numa Pompilius ( c. 713 BC ) or under the Decemvirs about 450 BC ( Roman writers differ ).

The order of months in the Roman calendar was January to December since King Numa Pompilius in about 700 BC, according to Plutarch and Macrobius.

Numa reformed the Roman calendar by adjusting it for the solar and lunar year as well as by adding the months of January and February to bring the total number of months to twelve.

* 715 BC: Start of the reign of Roman King Numa Pompilius.

* 713 BC: Numa Pompilius reforms the Roman calendar.

In Roman mythology, he negotiates with Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, to establish principles of Roman religion such as sacrifice.

Moreover, Jupiter promised that at the sunrise of the following day he would give to Numa and the Roman people pawns of the imperium.

The Roman Lex Regia ( royal law ), later the Lex Caesarea ( imperial law ) of Numa Pompilius ( 715 – 673 BC ), required the child of a mother dead in childbirth be cut from her womb.

* 713 BC — Numa Pompilius reforms the Roman calendar.

He had a Flamen Maior called the Flamen Quirinalis, who oversaw his worship and rituals in the ordainment of Roman religion attributed to Romulus ' royal successor, Numa Pompilius.

Roman tradition credited Ceres ' eponymous festival, Cerealia, to Rome's second king, the semi-legendary Numa.

Based on Roman chronology, Numa died of old age in 673 BC.

In other Roman institutions established by Numa, Plutarch thought he detected a Laconian influence, attributing the connection to the Sabine culture of Numa, for " Numa was descended of the Sabines, who declare themselves to be a colony of the Lacedaemonians.

The two best-known of the Camenae were Carmentis ( or Carmenta ), who had her own flamen and in whose honor the Carmentalia was held, and Egeria, the divine consort of Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome considered the founder of Roman law and religion.

Numa in his regulation of the Roman calendar called the first month Januarius after Janus, according to tradition considered the highest divinity at the time.

Numa built the Ianus geminus ( also Janus Bifrons, Janus Quirinus or Portae Belli ), a passage ritually opened at times of war, and shut again when Roman arms rested.