According to Reader's Digest, "Because December was the tenth month, it was named for the number ten in Latin (
decern), just like September was named for seven (septem).
(2014) "The Role of Guidances in Modern Administrative Procedures." Paper presented at the Hoover Institution Program on Regulation and the Rule of Law (
Decern her)
Res agitur intus magna, par annis
decern. Eheu quid hoc est?
(57) John Leslie, De origine, moribus, et rebus gestis Scotorum libri
decern [...] Accessit nova et accurata regionum et insularum Scotiae [...] descriptio (Rome, 1578).
Co., 2016 NY Slip Op 08313 [145 AD3d 502] Appellate Division, First Department,
Decern ber 8, 2016
The Latin source, De institucione et peculiaribus gestis religiosorum carmelita-rum
decern libri in lege veteri exortorum et in nova perseverancium (commonly called The Book of the First Monks), which was of fundamental importance for the history and identity of the Carmelites, seeking as it did to argue for the antiquity of the order, was no doubt produced after 1379 by the Catalo-nian provincial, Felip Ribot (d.
His tears, his treachery seized / the men whom neither Tydeus' son nor Achilles could defeat, / nor ten long years of war, nor all the thousand ships" ("Talibus insidiis periurique arte Sinonis / credita res, captique dolis lacrimisque coactis / quos neque Tydides nec Larisaeus Achilles, / non anni domuere
decern, non mille carinae" (Aen.
40, citing Saint Thomas Aquinas, In Duo Praecepta Caritatis et in
Decern Legis Praecepta--Prologus: Opuscula Theologica, II, no.
The reference is to book III of the Epistularum libri
decern of Pliny the Younger, where he describes the books written by his uncle, and relates what he used to say about books: Nihil enim legit quod non excerperet; dicere etiam solebat nullum esse librum tam malum ut non aliqua parte prodesset (Epistle 5, C.
cedo vel
decern, edocebo minime malas ut sint malae, mihi solae quod superfit.