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There is no "beyond the universe". Once you go past the edges, you create a new part of the universe. It is a physical impossibility for a human to go past the edges.

There have been no Punic found in the Ohio River valley - it's one big smelly piece of *****. Chalk this one up as another dumb conspiracy theory.

U Toronto as well, although Chicago is best known for its ANE dept. and UT is best known for its religious dept. (i.e. classics-related departments, not including the sciences...).

The supine is never nominative - only accusative and ablative. Correctly, it's the perfect passive participle. Not quite. If it were mereo, mereri, meritus, then it'd be semi-deponent. However, I see two different entries for mereo - mereo, merere and mereor, mereri, most likely having both the deponent forms and regular forms. Also, meritus seems to be used both active, passive and middle tenses, which is quite a large difference. Did the wings earn, or did someone earn the wings? Chambers-Murray cites the middle tense for meritus as most frequent. Personally, I'd stick with perfect active: Pennas Merui, although Pennis Meritis sounds better, if you can get past the ambiguity. One wing only? Who else? How odd - why did my quotes not work properly? [edit - PP... one too many /quote ]

Minor correction - Paul, Cephas, and James.

I think Pantagathus was being facetious.

I love Colleen. In fact, I'm reading First Man in Rome now. mehercule, I could severely edit her writing, but she does make it interesting. Back in 1917, T. Rice Holmes wrote against Mommsen for Caesar's birth in 100 BCE and not 102. Anyone who has access to the JSTOR can look up the article. Since the article is created before 1923, I'm working on getting a text version available on my website.

Stay alive and healthy for your return. Good luck.

Yeah, I was expecting some sort of anti-echeneian passage...perhaps you confused incredulous with gullible?

Gratias tibi, Constantine.

I find this highly insulting and hope the moderators can deal with this attack appropriately. Perhaps next time you can actually enquire into the situation instead of mouthing off insults to people you don't know and know nothing about. For me, Mr. Dalby, I refuse to converse with you any longer.

It might be outdated by now, but Zacharie Mayani worked on the subject in "The Etruscans Begin to Speak". Dealing with quack linguistics all the time, I can at least vouch that it does have a sound methodology and works within general accepted historical/comparative linguistics. He traces the language to the Ilyrio-Thracian family of IE, of which Messapian and Albanian are other languages (the former extinct, the latter now highly derived). I think it's a compelling case. I continually see a problem with people unaware of the work, having been written in French in middle of last century, but it is available in English. I might scan some of it sometime or even discuss it on my blog/forum or here. By the way, the Etruscans weren't peregrini according to Roman standards, were they?

What have you gotten so far? I'll gladly correct your work, but I won't actually do it for you...unless you're willing to pay.

Kh rather than Gh. Like in the German Bach. Doesn't work. She was born in Korea and can speak it fluently, but I still only know just a few phrases - and we've been together for three years!

You found nothing for her? Did you check your major online sources first?

The death of al Zarqawi of course is welcomed, but at what cost? It's like a burning down your house, and then, as you trudge through the flames, you found that you did get rid of the rat that was haunting it.

It's not Vergil - Vergil was a poet. And he didn't make it up, either. It's from somewhere, probably a textbook, perhaps. A google search has it showing up in translation pages...

This should be moved to Hora Postilla Thermae. And good lord - I can't stand Modern Greek. Efharisto? Eeewww. I'll take my eucharisto any day.

Vicarious is not Latin... It's English, from French, from Latin. Vicarius -> vicaria; there would be no change for comes or consul; praefectus -> praefecta; no change for dux either, but it might be. Dux is short for Ductor, so perhaps you'd see ductrix, but most likely just dux.

OK then, scratch my suggestions, but I think that they all had a big impact on our lives today, more so than many military / political leaders. Absolutely.

OP = opening post. He gives a list of criteria which every one of your candidates fail to reach.

Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense, and neither Paine, nor Einstein, nor Oppenheimer, nor Ford, nor Stephenson, nor Jesus were political leaders like the OP asks for.

tflex - did you bother to read what I wrote earlier? Just some posts up? It's always a helpful thing to do.

Don't be so negative, Germanice, I do not have a closed mind. I used Sulla as an extreme example - it was granted for him to do whatever he wished to reform the Republic, but if we wished, he could have had it for life. Dictatorship previously meant elected for a year and then when through lay it down again. Furthermore, the proscription lists easily went against the constitution of the Republic. Such a crime is utterly deplorable. It was a mark of the end, but it wasn't the end itself. The reason why it hadn't ended with Caesar is because Caesar died before he could kill it. It was definitely within his grasp to kill, but he was stopped by the assassins. If the assassins had won out, do you think the Republic might still have been saved? I place it squarely on Augustus who had created the princeps system - an unprecedented role - one he made up for himself. With the princeps system, there was no going back to the Republic. I suppose it'd be the same for a person who is near death in a coma and a person who is being buried in a grave.

Yeah, no objection here. Cato certainly holds part of the blame for the downfall of the Republic - when did I deny this before? I certainly wouldn't have him as a primary culprit, though. I think the destruction of the Republic according to those responsible is as follows: Augustus - laid the final blow to the Republic; was the only man in Rome who had the power to restore the Republic and failed Marius - his military reforms, unprecedented consulship terms, and dictatorial command were the biggest blows to the Republic until Augustus struck it dead. Caesar - crippled the Republic with his war on Rome and afterwards his assumption of the title dictator in perpetuo Sulla - after winning the first civil war, abused the power of the dictatorship for his own gain; the proscription lists and bullying dictatorship set horryfyingly bad precedents The more minor characters of Pompey, Antony, Lepidus, Cato, et al. have a good share as well, but history has decided that the four above bear the most burden.