They used no other names but these, either in their conversation, or in their letters.
Upon the same principles they altered the names of the months also.
These, such as March and June, which had been so named by the ancient Romans, because they were sacred to Mars and Juno, were exploded, because they seemed in the use of them to be expressive of a kind of idolatrous homage.

Others again were exploded, because they were not the representatives of the truth.

September, for example, means the [44]seventh month from the storms.

It took this seventh station in the kalendar of Romulus, and it designated there its own station as well as the reason of its name.

But when it[45] lost its place in the kalendar by the alteration of the style in England, it lost its meaning.