The months were then found to be eleven days out of the way, when a new correction was introduced,[4] and it will now go on three thousand years before the error will amount to a single day.
Caesar employed a Greek astronomer to arrange the system that he adopted; and it was in part on account of the improvement which he thus effected that one of the months, as has already been mentioned, was called July.

Its name before was Quintilis.
[Footnote 4: By Pope Gregory XIII.

at the time of the change from the old style to the new] [Sidenote: Magnificent schemes.] [Sidenote: Caesar collects the means to carry out his vast schemes.] Caesar formed a great many other vast and magnificent schemes.

He planned public buildings for the city, which were going to exceed in magnitude and splendor all the edifices of the world.

He commenced the collection of vast libraries, formed plans for draining the Pontine Marshes, for bringing great supplies of water into the city by an aqueduct, for cutting a new passage for the Tiber from Rome to the sea, and making an enormous artificial harbor at its mouth.