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He's great, seems to relish the role too.
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Enjoy ! It's hard to explain, but some of the most offensive(and deeply enjoyable) swearing I've ever heard is contained within. Wild Bill can shoot with his mouth as well as a gun ! It's the way the words are put together, rather than the words themselves. Anyway, you'll see.
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Definately Kosmo.
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So how was the book Furius ?
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A definition of ideology is probably required. As mentioned by Cato earlier, an idea and an ideology are not the same thing, at least I don't think so anyway. I can see ideas expressed in buildings, and using hindsight I can assign all kinds of attributes to Roman buildings, which the architect probably never intended, and the people of the time probably didn't see. Phils point on the Forum is interesting though, although not just one building.
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I'm not up with the actual details of latrine duty, scrubing the walls of the latrine ? I don't know. I always envisaged latrine duty as either filling in the exsisting latrine, or digging a new one.
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What a good suggestion ! Would you include the cape in that ?
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Symptoms Of The Triumvirate Not The Republic
Germanicus replied to M. Porcius Cato's topic in Res Publica
Maybe you could start a thread on electoral bribery Phil, it's prevalence is certainly up for debate, it would probably be better than laying baits for it in exsisting threads. -
Yes they did. If you had the cash though you might have bribed your commanding officer for a better duty.
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Pyramid Found - In The Heart Of Bosnia!
Germanicus replied to Ancestor's topic in Archaeological News: The World
It's begginning to get hilarious. -
Very true, a rework of Ri-man seems in order, perhaps they could start by changing the color ? Or maybe removing the dark green Mohawk ?
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RI-MAN
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When Ouija Boards Go Horribly Wrong
Germanicus replied to Ursus's topic in Templum Romae - Temple of Rome
I believe one of the charges against Piso, after the death of Germanicus was of sorcery. Or perhaps that was just thought because poisoning was seen as a branch of those arts. Sulla passed the Lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficiis in 82 BC, largly aimed at poisoning which seems to have been lumped in with Sorcery as a dark art. From A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875. Another bit of quality from Bill Thayer -
There's no way to be sure of this, but we can be reasonable sure of why Caesar crossed the Rubicon under arms. Because Cicero was well dead with a pin cushion tongue when they started.
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Pliny mentions that Regulus (someone he had little time for) as having "counless copies made" of a memoir of his dead son. I'd envisage the wealthy educated classes as being the only audience. What is the Gazette that Suetonius often refers to ?
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Yeah, can't remember them though, it was years ago.
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Sejanus would be an example I guess. I've always seen them as close to the right hand man for the Princeps. Nice one Ursus !
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It depends who you talk to as to his level of reliability.
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Right on !
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I agree that Augustus put the coffin in the grave, but still don't see the republic functioning as a republic after 44BC. I guess the difference between Sulla and Caesar is that Sulla was a Republican.
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I'm workin on it buddy, some would say I've been working on it since high school - LOL
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I disagree. Sulla became dictator legibus faciendis et reipublicae costituendae, and the fact is that he reformed the constitution, then laid down the office because he felt he'd done what was required to replensih the republic. I do see what you are saying, but see Sulla accepting the office as saying - "Yes I will reform laws and fortify the constitution of this republic" where as Caesar said "Yes I will be Dictator for as long as I live and do as I see fit for the rest of my life". But our opinions differ and I feel never will they converge on this issue.
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No, sat with his back to the door and got capped in it.
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Who would Suetonius audience have been ? Who was literate and would buy liturature at the time ?
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Such an apt description.