Seneca in a letter to Lucilius, circa 62 AD: > It is the month of December, and yet the city is at this very moment in a sweat. Licence is given to the general

Seneca in a letter to Lucilius, circa 62 AD: > It is the month of December, and yet the city is at this very moment in a sweat. Licence is given to the general merrymaking. Everything resounds with mighty preparations, – as if the Saturnalia differed at all from the usual business day! So true it is that the difference is nil, that I regard as correct the remark of the man who said: "Once December was a month; now it is a year." (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_18 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Let...)