OCTOBER, in chronology, the eighth month of Romulus's year, which the name implies; but tenth
in the calendar of Numa, Julius Cæsar, &c. The senate gave this month the name Faustinus, in compliment to Faustina, the wife of the Emperor Antoninus; Commodus would have it called Invidiosus; and Domitian named it Domitianus; but in spite of all these attempts it still retains its original name. This month was sacred to Mars, and under his protection.