Hadn´t they the six days of saturnaliea, after 360 days (12x30) to fullfill the rhythm of the sun ? - and weren´t these days quiet a spectacle extra ordrinary?!

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Yes, the Romans did add extra days to reconcile lunar months with the solar year, and Saturnalia was indeed an extraordinary spectacle.

But that adjustment doesn’t change the symbolic structure of the year: March still marked the beginning of the civic, military, and agricultural cycle.

Intercalary days fixed the math. March defined the meaning.