But, as this would fail to make a deep impression without some claim to
							supernatural wisdom, he pretended that he had nocturnal interviews with
							the nymph Egeria: that it was on her advice that he was instituting the
							ritual most acceptable to the gods and appointing for each deity his own
							special priests. First of all he divided the year into twelve months, corresponding to the
							moon's revolutions. But as the moon does not complete thirty days in
							each month, and so there are fewer days in the lunar year than in that
							measured by the course of the sun, he interpolated intercalary months
							and so arranged them that every twentieth year the days should coincide
							with the same position of the sun as when they started, the whole twenty
							years being thus complete. He also established a distinction between the days on which legal
							business could be transacted and those on which it could not, because it
							would sometimes be advisable that there should be no business transacted
							with the people. Next he turned his attention to the appointment of priests. He himself,
							however, conducted a great many religious services, especially those
							which belong to the Flamen of Jupiter . Flamen —Lit. “the kindler,”
								his duty being to supervise the ceremonies connected with the burnt
								sacrifices. But he thought that in a warlike state there
							would be more kings of the type of Romulus than of Numa who would take
							the field in person. To guard, therefore, against the sacrificial rites
							which the king performed being interrupted, he appointed a Flamen as
							perpetual priest to Jupiter ,
							and ordered that he should wear a distinctive dress and sit in the royal
							curule chair. He appointed two additional Flamens, one for Mars, the
							other for Quirinus, and also chose virgins as priestesses to