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Salve, GPM The same can be said regarding Caligula... Anyway,I'll give it a go too.

Great Video indeed, LW! Gratiam habeo for such nice material, GG! A 2002 two minutes-plus hiqh quality renactment of Roman military surgery by John Smith aka Marcus Longinus Cato from Leg II AUG. Some of those military physicians were undoubtedly among the best of the best regarding global pre-Renaissance surgery. At the same time, it's a good reminder of how the surgery without aseptic technique, anesthesia, modern sutures, antibiotics, blood transfusion and real physiologic knowledge would have been like. (Anyway, not so different from a Navy surgeon at Trafalgar)

Salve, Amici.

By 60 AD the Rhin border had been quiet for almost two decades.

My best guesses: - Britons (specially Iceni and Silures) from eastern Britannia and Wales (Boudicca's rebellion was at its height). - Persians, Armenians and their allies (Tigranocerta fell the previous year). - Sarmatians (Rhoxolani) from Dacia.

Althought I disagree with this statement (and I will elaborate on this issue later), I agree that medical care in the Ancient world was nonstandardized. As I may possibly have exagerated a little bit in my previous statement, I will also elaborate on this issue later and more carefully.

Even at the early Republican times we may find some free voluntaries among the gladiators:

Salve, Ian You can order an english copy of "A re-examination of why Stilicho abandoned his pursuit of alaric in 397" by Emma Burrell from HERE; please don't be scared by the french: after clicking on the "order a copy" button, you will find the appropiate English instructions.

I think we should clearly distinguish the particular case.

Six weeks later, virtually all I have read still supports such conclusion.

Salve, PP That's the problem, we simply don't know.

If you mean an slave born in Rome from one or both Gaulish parents, he was a Gaul no more (strictly speaking, he or she had never been a Gaul).

We can't agree more.

Salve, Amici I agree - this would be over three kilos weight in gold. As 1 Aureus = 100 sestertii at the II century AD, "400 gold coins" = 40,000 sestertii; ie, one fifth of the fee asked by the physician Charmis in Nero's time, even without adjusting for the inflation rate (please check out the plinian quotation within my previous post).

Salve, L Translation: Mr Shelanski doesn't know what the heck is he talking about... The titanic 1960s film was one of the highest points of the sword-and-sandals genre, even if quite atypical; by Hollywood standards, it was pretty realistic. Even if the leftist social vision of Kubrick was not supported by classical sources, it was not specifically denied either. Even if a great deal of the action was fictitious, most of its characters had a larger than expected share from their real-life counterparts. On the other hand, we already know what kind of classical realism we can expect from the Xena-like sagas: "Julius Caesar" actually appeared as an ex-lover of the Warrior Princess. That character (and his background) shared little more in common than the name with any historical interpretation of the Roman Dictator that I'm aware of. 1979 Caligula pretended to please *or* and history fans at the same time; it was mostly rejected by both. IMHO, a Xena-like Spartacus would be too historically boring for Xenaverse fans and simply undigestible for Romanophiles.

Salve L, et gratiam habeo for such useful advice!

Salve, GG (BTW, this passage was presumably one of the inspirations behind Moli

Gratiam habeo I for such great link!

Felicem diem natalem, ML!

We entirely agree.

Salve, Amici I'm not sure. They're someone else's notes, but I doubt they're incorrect. Both Crawford and TRS Broughton concluded that the father of Cato Uticencis died before DCLXIII AUC / 91 BC.

Salve, Amici. A not-for-the-squeamish novel by Lady A with her analysis on the end of the Roman republican liberty and the technical assistance from Maladict & MPC? I can't wait any longer to read it.