AUGUST (originally Sextilis), the sixth month in the pre Julian Roman year, which received its present name from the Emperor Augustus. The preceding month, Quintilis, had been called "July" after Julius Caesar, and the emperor chose August to be renamed in his own honour because in that month he had been admitted to the consulate, had thrice celebrated a triumph, had received the allegiance of the soldiers stationed on the Jan iculum, had concluded the civil wars, and had subdued Egypt.