Germanicus
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What a good suggestion ! Would you include the cape in that ?
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is this a game of let's deny anything we don't like or which acts against our pet theories? can anyone play?
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.
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Yes they did. If you had the cash though you might have bribed your commanding officer for a better duty.
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They should be arrested and accused for fraud and false information. This is no longer a shame, this is beginning to get disgusting.
It's begginning to get hilarious.
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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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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.
The word Veneficium was also applied to potions, incantations, &c. (Cic. Brut. 60; Petron. 118); whence we find Veneficus and Venefica used in the sense of a sorcerer and sorceress in general.From A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875. Another bit of quality from Bill Thayer
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If he had agreed to Caesar If he had agreed to Caesar (and he was not alone to oppose him) the Republic would have collapsed anyway
There's no way to be sure of this, but we can be reasonable sure of why Caesar crossed the Rubicon under arms.
Why don't blame Cicero for sparking the wars against Antonius?Because Cicero was well dead with a pin cushion tongue when they started.
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Wonder if there was an industry to copy these things
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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Anyone read Christian Jacq's Ramases series?
Yeah, can't remember them though, it was years ago.
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Where does the position of the Praetorian Prefect come from? I mean in terms of sources.
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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Why is Sueton is viewed as so unreliable in the first place?
It depends who you talk to as to his level of reliability.
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Whilst he was in a poker game holding his 'dead man's hand' I hope
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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Germanicus we should do be so bad that everyone will feel sorry for us and give us tons of cash...they will never know.
I'm workin on it buddy, some would say I've been working on it since high school - LOL
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What do you think Sulla had? Because he gave it up a couple years before he died doesn't mean that he didn't have the power to be dictator until he died. If that's the case, then the "Republic" fell decades before Caesar, however absurd that might be.
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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How did that happen Germanicus? Surely not in a straight up duel.
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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Conn Imakeitupasigoalong?
Such an apt description.
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Check out his website seems he did okay out of it - hell, where do I sign up for humiliation ?
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I think he was wearing the red boots of the Alban kings by then.
I certainly don't think he was a tyrant, and like you said Phil - a very human character. Bit of a Polymath really.
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It's interesting isn't it that Tacitus and Suetonius were probably friends, and read each others work. I wonder if Tacitus thought Suetonius was full of it ?
Yeah, I love reading him too, he's such a bitch.
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question? how can the roman army not be effective? according to many people the roman army under ceasar killed a million men in gaul. comprehend the number 1,000,000 me thats a lot of men back in thier day that was rome several times over even more
Yes, it was highly effective - but still lost plenty of battles.
With regard to Caesar, there's every chance Plutarch inflated the figures, but yes, I'm sure he killed and enslaved plenty.
That's kind of the point though - they did it under Caesar, the Roman armys effectiveness was directly linked to the effectiveness of it's leaders.
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It's great, just finished the first season, on to number 2.
Latrine Duty
in Gloria Exercitus - 'Glory of the Army'
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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.