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  1. WOW; excellent post , GG Jackson figures are incredibly optimistic: He assumed Galen never lost even a single page and that he didn't require editing or reviewing even a single word. Jackson doesn't considered the time required for research and verification; Galen checked on all the available medical and philosophical literature of his time; eg. he quoted many Hippocratical texts written some seven centuries before. (BTW, I'm sure that by now you're very well aware of this caveat, as Galen didn't have Internet). But fundamentally, Jackson seems to consider that any successful Roman physician didn't have anything else to do but to write across half a century, being him travelling or taking care of the gladiators; not to talk about experimentation. Finally, I understand 3,000,000 words is an estimation for what we currently have from him; we have evidence of many other lost works from Galen.
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    Downfall of Sejanus

    Gratiam habeo for such nice link, PP.
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    Mythteries

    Nessus?
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    Mythteries

    .... Are you... Anaxarete? (and the suicidal boy Iphis?) From Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, Liber XIV verse DCXCVIII to DCCLXXI.
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    Development of the Maternal Cognomen

    We agree.
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    Development of the Maternal Cognomen

    Salve, Amici. Certainly sounds right! As you said, Roman naming conventions had become quite flexible by that time, as evidenced by the fact that Roman women were acquiring names of more variety, adopting their own distinctive, feminine cognomina. -- Nephele This might be too off-topic to keep in here, and perhaps should be split off...I'll let the mods take care of that. But... Why was this acceptable at the time of Vespasian? Were women given more rights in society, and therefore adding the feminine-line to the name was acceptable? Or was it simply to be more distinguished? It would seem to me that if it became acceptable to put the feminine-line to the name, then matrons of the family (not necessarily matriarchs) started to weild more influence and/or power. It's a big step in such a patriarchal world. I know that, as a whole, (patrician) women in Rome had more power and rights (for lack of better terms) than the (elite) women of ancient Greece, but they still weren't exactly 'liberated' in the modern sense.
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    Mythteries

    You are... Orpheus? I love that story of Orpheus and Eurydice. So sad. Indeed it is. Indeed you are.
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    Mythteries

    He knows she is behind him She has to be But her steps are so quiet He has to know He cannot turn around He is not allowed Suddenly he turns They stop A look 'Farewell, ' And she's gone
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    Mythteries

    Would you be... Atlas? yes--want to give the decoding a shot? For example, "Creation's first lovers"? "Olympian thug"? My best guess for the clues: "Creation's first lovers...": Under one version (Hyginus) Atlas was the son of the primordial divinities Aether and Gea. "... denied embrace": The Sky (Aether) and the Earth (Gea) have no physical arms. "Crush my shoulders, fix my place": Heracles' petition while he was holding the Heaven. "Two tortures set..." bearing the Earth and bearing the Heaven. "...by an Olympian thug": Zeus "Why must I struggle? Why not shrug?": A referrence to the novel by Ayn Rand.
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    Mythteries

    Would you be... Atlas?
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    The new New Colossus

    Ah, good old Guardian. Only they could have come up with a 'ground-breaking' statue. Gives the swords to ploughshares concept a whole new meaning.
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    Mythteries

    You are... Hero and Leander? Very nicely written! (But I believe the credit for these couplets goes to Mr. Marlowe.) -- Nephele Entirely right of course, Lady N. Your turn.
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    Past Their Best

    Essentially, the following phrase is an oxymoron: Not at all. ... or any other rebel, resistance, partisan, or guerilla group that has taken on professional troops and won in the early days before they gathered enough experience to justify your comment.
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    Mythteries

    Salve, Amici Here comes an easy one: On Hellespont, guilty of true-love's blood, In view and opposite two cities stood, Sea-borderers, disjoined by Neptune's might; The one Abydos, the other Sestos hight.
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    Gaius Caesar "Caligula" died peacefully

    Caius Julius Caesar Minor aka Caligula actually had a child.
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    Who Killed Germanicus?

    In general terms, the available sources are not alternative but complementary.
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    Meh

    This is a nice example of descriptive (as opposed to prescriptive) linguistics; the Collins English Dictionary is just describing how the people is actually using the language, not prescribing the way they should use it. Linguistic evolution is the perfect democracy.
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    Greatest Roman Generals?

    Salve, CN and weolcome to UNRV.
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    Mythteries

    Salve, Lady N Cardea. (If I am right, and being a lttle busy by now, I wouldn't mind if anyone else takes my turn; thanks in advance).
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    Roman influence on Christian doctrine?

    Why couldn't it happen both ways?
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    Past Their Best

    In fact, what defines any army's quality is its performance; whatever example you may imagine to try to sustain such argumentation (maybe Napoleon before the Alps?) it would imply that for whichever mechanism you may imagine such men have become high quality soldiers; period.
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    Past Their Best

    Come on, I can`t believe you're seriously saying that. Impressive deeds require BOTH capable commanders and high standard soldiers. Period.
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    Senate and Pompey's acta

    Salve, Prr Then your interest goes far beyond Cn Pompeius Magnus biographies, from which you seem to be well aware.
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    Gaius Caesar "Caligula" died peacefully

    Including Nero ? I see him as an aged actor in the amphitheater of Mutina... Oh! Was it not a joke...? Okeeeey... As any other male related to theJulo-Claudian dynasty not in the throne, Claudius and LD Ahenobarbus' (not Nero) lives would have been always at risk; it would have been quite unlikely for them to survive 43 additional years! Regarding everything else on this thread's first post, I must entirely agree with Ingsoc; particularly regarding question # 3, the fate of the Empire during the late Julio-Claudian period was fundamentally in the hands of quite able administrators (mostly equites and freedmen); in fact, that's the main reason why the Empire successfully thrived across all these years.
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