[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Latin](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la) › [Principate (31 BCE – 300 CE)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial) › [Quintus Curtius Rufus, History of Alexander](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius) › 8.9.35 # Quintus Curtius Rufus, History of Alexander 8.9.35 Historiae Alexandri Magni 8.9.35 - **Language:** Latin ### [8.9.35](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius.8.9.35) Menses in quinos denos discripserunt dies, anni plena spatia servantur. > They regard as gods whatever objects they value, especially trees, to violate which is a capital offence. Their months they make to consist each of fifteen days, but they nevertheless assign to the year its full duration. They mark the divisions of time by the course of the moon, not like most nations when that planet shows a full face, but when she begins to appear horned, and hence, by fixing the duration of a month to correspond with this phase of the moon, they have their months one-half shorter than the months of other people. Many other things have been related of them, but to interrupt with them the progress of the narrative I consider quite out of place. > — John Watson McCrindle 1896, The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great (Curtius' books VIII–IX) - [Previous: 8.9.34](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius.8.9.34) - [Next: 8.9.36](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius.8.9.36) - [Up: 8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius.8.9) ## Translations (1) - [The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great (Curtius' books VIII–IX)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius~en-mccrindle.8.9.p7) — John Watson McCrindle 1896, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius.8.9.35](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius.8.9.35) · Pramāṇa