<P> The month of August ( Latin : Augustus ) is named after Augustus ; until his time it was called Sextilis ( named so because it had been the sixth month of the original Roman calendar and the Latin word for six is sex ) . Commonly repeated lore has it that August has 31 days because Augustus wanted his month to match the length of Julius Caesar 's July , but this is an invention of the 13th century scholar Johannes de Sacrobosco . Sextilis in fact had 31 days before it was renamed , and it was not chosen for its length ( see Julian calendar ) . According to a senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius , Sextilis was renamed to honor Augustus because several of the most significant events in his rise to power , culminating in the fall of Alexandria , fell in that month . </P>
<P> The month of August ( Latin : Augustus ) is named after Augustus ; until his time it was called Sextilis ( named so because it had been the sixth month of the original Roman calendar and the Latin word for six is sex ) . Commonly repeated lore has it that August has 31 days because Augustus wanted his month to match the length of Julius Caesar 's July , but this is an invention of the 13th century scholar Johannes de Sacrobosco . Sextilis in fact had 31 days before it was renamed , and it was not chosen for its length ( see Julian calendar ) . According to a senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius , Sextilis was renamed to honor Augustus because several of the most significant events in his rise to power , culminating in the fall of Alexandria , fell in that month . </P>
where did the name of the month august come from
where did the name of the month august come from
named after Augustus
named after Augustus