Silentium
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I just signed up with the nationstate thingy yesterday. Looks like fun and maybe a few people taking it a bit too seriously. I'm the 'Republic of Plastic Flatware' based on the first thing I glanced at while typing.
Yes, some people totally miss the point of the whole site..I think people with a good sense of humor will find it brilliant, it's hilarious =)
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I think a big part of it also had to do with the very high number of non roman soldiers in the later empire. when a big chunk of your army is spanish and german and sarmatians who are fighting to protect something that is not theirs, they will probably lose faith.
Exactly, the sad thing is there were no Italians/Romans in the legions in that period, they were all foreigners..mostly mercenaries. The good old “bloodthirsty” Roman/Italian legions were only a memory of the past.
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I had a nation at NationStates called Aeternitas which died a long time ago, unfortunately. Due to lack of time I left my citizens in a total anarchy so they started killing each other and eventually gave the government to a neofascist party. LOL. I didn't know the site was still up =) I had a lot of fun with Aeternitas (holy empire of Aeternitas, to be precise
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And happy 20th to Silentium.
Thank you. Time really flies away, cerebrally I'm still 2 or something. =)
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I don't see that happening to me..realistically. I'm just not that naive.
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Anything by Tim Burton with Johnny Depp =)
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That's the correct pronounciation but I think everyone is free to pronounce it the way they want..there's no native speaker alive to correct you after all =) and it's true that latin is spoken differently in different European countries, people tend to add to the latin pronounciation peculiar characteristics of their own languages.
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Most scholars trace Vesta and her Hellenic counterpart Hestia back to a Proto-Indo-European
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haha of course, I'm not that mentally decadent [yet]
(although I can give the opposite impression =)). I tried to translate from Italian into English but the sentence that came out didn't sound correct in English to me.. it would sound like: Never "less" alone than when you are alone with yourself
It means that sometimes you can feel "more" alone in the middle of a crowd than when you are really alone.
The original phrase is a bit different because it is in a "larger" context(something written by Cicero =P), but that version is acceptable too, actually it is a peculiar property of the latin language to be a bit ambiguous, as a great italian philosopher and latinist used to say
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Numquam minus solus quam cum solus
This is my favourite quote, together with the one I have in my signature. I can translate it from Latin to Italian but it's quite difficult for me to translate this sentence into English..
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Interesting, I can't imagine what the result will be!
IGN is definitely the best videogaming source and merging with Gamespy can only make it better.
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Modern scholars, in general, regard the Pelasgi as a prehistoric people, probably non-Aryan in their racial affinities, and possibly to be identified with the same branch as the Etruscans, who came to Greece from Asia at a period earlier than that of the Indo-European migration. Still others use the name as designating the Indo-Europeans before the time of their separation into Greeks and Italians. To them are usually ascribed certain religious cults, which are in their origin non-Hellenic, such as that of the Cabeiri (q.v.) and of Zeus at Dodona; and also the architectural remains popularly called Cyclopean.
Exactly. Some people identify them with the Caucasian/Asian populations who settled in Italy and Greece and think they probably had the same origins as the Etruscans. Others think the Etruscans themselves later emigrated to Greece, but there are so many theories concerning the migrations of the italic populations and even the origins of the Romans that I tend not to take anything for granted. If people from northern Italy still call themselves
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Wow, the forum is so much better now =) by the way, I just came across this smilie and thought it would be a lot more appropriate here than the place where I found it:
I hope it can be of any use, I thought it was cute =)by the way, is it an IPB 2.0.4 plugin that allows you to add the blog/gallery feature? (sorry for my syntax lol)
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You're welcome
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Same, but I'm sure it will turn out good. I wouldn't have wanted to see it irreparably damaged so I was relieved when I heard about this.
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How you chose your profession? (Or going to choose) what kind of sides of it attracted your attention?
Ironically I didn't choose my profession. Someone noticed my online portfolio on a school webproject, contacted me and offered me the job (webdesigner/translator). It's a part time job, which means I have enough time to study. This is not what I'm planning to do for the rest of my life though..=|
What am I planning to do in the future, then? It may sound weird but I don't know yet, the only certain thing is the field in which I'd like to operate, but it's all hypotetical.
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I'm trilingual but I already have a job and I'm perfectly fine with it.
Anyway, should I need a job in the immediate future I'll place my profile.
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That sounds great =)
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If you want more info on Tarquinia you can look here. The main websites on Tarquinia are in Italian, that was one of the few I could find in English
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Err..wasn't Ora et labora enough? =)
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Yes, what they forgot to mention is that MP Rocco Buttiglione recently announced a restauration plan for Castel S.Angelo.
Works will start in a month, the total amount provided from both "Ministero dei beni culturali" and "Ministero delle infrastrutture" is around 1.000.000 euros. The restauration works will be completed by the end of 2006.
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I got the impression it's overlooked by many tourists who just go to Rome, visit the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, etc. and then move on...
True..people usually skip Ostia antica or ignore its existance. Somehow I think Ostia is even more spectacular and suggestive than the forum, it
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I personally relate the word Emperor to be an English bastardization.
Yes, of course it is, and I was not referring to all the
Pelasgians
in Historia in Universum
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Yes..I was wondering that because I recently read an essay by someone in which he wrote a lot of rather improbable theories about Vesta and the Etruscan Pantheon..(in a desperate attempt to demonstrate the common Pelasgian origin of certain Greeks and the Etruscans, due to the fact that the Etruscan alphabet was similar to the archaic Greek one). Besides, as far as I know the Etruscan language was non Indo-European, whereas the [classic] Greek is Indo-European. I'm sure that's revisionism. At first I thought his argumentations were quite convincing, that's why I asked about the simultaneous spread of the cult, but later comparing other sources it came out how wrong that whole text is. Vesta's origins can't be non Indo-European.. I'd like to slap myself for taking that stuff seriously lol. I should stop reading that sort of stuff and surrender to the fact the origins of the Etruscans are unknown.