Editing Numa Pompilius (section)

=== Calendar ===
By tradition, Numa [[Promulgation|promulgated]] a [[Roman calendar#Calendar of Numa|calendar reform]], which divided the year into twelve months according to the [[Lunar phase|lunar]] course, but adjusted to be in accordance with the solstitial revolution.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rüpke|first=Jörg|date=2011|title=The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine|journal=Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated|pages=38}}</ref> It was during this time that the months of January and February<ref name="LivyAb_a" /> were introduced. Numa also made the distinction of the days being either profane or sacred.<ref name=":03"/>

[[Plutarch]] in his [[Parallel Lives]] mention that Numa Pompilius made [[January]] the first month in the calendar instead of [[March]] by the next reason: "he wished in every case that martial influences should yield precedence to civil and political.  For this [[Janus]], in remote antiquity, whether he was a demi-god or a king, was a patron of civil and social order, and is said to have lifted human life out of its bestial and savage state. For this reason he is represented with two faces, implying that he brought men's lives out of one sort and condition into another."<ref>{{cite Plutarch|Numa|19|6}}</ref>