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Caesar finally removed this evil, and with the help of the Greek mathematician Sosigenes introduced the Italian farmer's year regulated according to the Egyptian calendar of Eudoxus, as well as a rational system of intercalation, into religious and official use; while at the same time the beginning of the year on the 1st March of the old calendar was abolished, and the date of the 1st January fixed at first as the official term for changing the supreme magistrates and, in consequence of this, long since prevailing in civil life was assumed also as the calendar-period for commencing the year.
Caesar finally removed this evil, and with the help of the Greek mathematician Sosigenes introduced the Italian farmer's year regulated according to the Egyptian calendar of Eudoxus, as well as a rational system of intercalation, into religious and official use; while at the same time the beginning of the year on the 1st March of the old calendar was abolished, and the date of the 1st January fixed at first as the official term for changing the supreme magistrates and, in consequence of this, long since prevailing in civil life was assumed also as the calendar-period for commencing the year.
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