FLavius Valerius Constantinus
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I'm just wondering, they won't be killed by stoning or clubbing right, just a swift beheading or cutting of the nervous system right?
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I despise Theodora because she is so devious and a backstabber. When Belisarius returned to Constantinople after his massively successful conquest of former Rome, Theodora just happened to convinced Justinian that Belisarius proved a threat to his rule, which I happened to think Belisarius was very loyal anyways, Justinian had Belisarius painfully tortured only to let him live as Belisarius the Blind and live his life out as a homeless and helpless. There goes what Belisarius could have done for the Empire and the army in the future.( I merely opinion)
Oh also, whom or which Constantine is Honorius talking about?
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I support the fact that the Legion recruited from Thebias, Egypt did exist. I suppose that finding the bodies of the saints is evidence the Legion existed but I'm having a hard time believing that the Burgundians were Christians. Maximiam overusing the decimation theory works because who the heck knows how even to decimate a legion anymore in the late empire. The 6660 men legion could work since they were probably the first legion recruited from Egypt(correct me if I'm wrong) But the spear of Longinus is probably the biggest mystery, who knows, St. Maurice could have gotten it...
What about the story of the Thundering Legion too : When Marcus Aurelius led an expedition against the Quadi in 174, his army, they got exhausted by thirst, and was at the point of weakness. Then the guys from Legio XII, which was composed of Christians, prayed to God for help. Then a huge thunderstorm arose, bringing the desired relief to the Romans, but terrifying and dispersing the barbarians. In act of good will M. Aurelius issued a decree forbidding the persecution of the Christians and to the Twelfth Legion he gave the surname of fulminata, or fulminea, that is, "thundering."
So do you believe these two legions existed and their stories?
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Armenia is probably the key to deciding whether the Roman forces or the Parthian forces are victorious in any Parthian campaign.
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Its not a matter of who suffered more, but the matter that you should care for anyone who suffers. Also, what did it to make me despise(not hate) the Russian soldiers was the fact that they mercilessly raped 100,000 women and girls, not even the 8 year olds were spared. Sure it was revenge, but they must have some kind of morality.
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Apparently my decimation topic is still alive when I brought it up.
Did the men with no fingers become archers unless they missed their middle finger or they were not handicapped at all?
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Not really, it might work if you just send some legatos to ask which town did it because then the innocent town wouldn't want to get razed. Back then, the fear tactic still worked with true results.
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Uhm our history section has all the dates and info on those specific people but I guess it would take a lot of time to read. I guess Ursus or Viggen can compilate it into their essay style posts of theirs for you.
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Uh, is this from a recipe book?
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I suppose napalm would be better because we know we can improve it anytime for much deadlier potency. Sadly, we don't have Greek fire to improve.
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I wonder why I haven't gotten any of these scams in my email yet if you Brits seem to have alot of them.
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Over here in America, we have the do not call list and if they do call us, they will face the government's legal charges.
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Gaul, simply because De Bello Gallico really convinced me that Caesar conquered those numerous tribes with ease due to the brilliant tactics.
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Luckily we are all educated. To the mediocre person, that sounds practically tempting. To the person with intuition, its convincing but largely impossible with the given facts. Come on, 65% goes towards the bankers, absurd.
By the way, I suggest you get a new account with a good ISP who will actually block spam and suspicious emails like comcast for example.
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Yeah, must have sucked to know that you killed one of the world's greatest minds. It's like me in the modern equivalent killing Einstein long before he even died.
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At the point of Hadrian's reign, the point is to no longer conquer but to defend the current empire at hand because of financial difficulties and resources. So there would be no point in making forts with the purpose of conquering the enemy.
That's what I think.
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My Latin teacher today mentioned that there is evidence that quite a number of Patricians deliberately moved their patrician status to Plebeian. Can anyone confirm this?
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I really hate carpet bombings, there's no use to it. I mean you are already winning the war, what strategic importance would you need in demoralizing and murduring innocent civilians. Actually, the death toll from the Dresden conflageration was 500,000 people.
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LONDON, October 31 (IranMania) - A team of archaeologists working at the 3000-year-old site of Gohar-Tappeh in Iran?s northern province of Mazandaran have recently unearthed a skeleton of a warrior buried in an attacking pose with a dagger in his hands, the Persian service of the Cultural Heritage News (CHN) agency reported.
?He is holding a 26-centimeter dagger and appears to be making a forward thrust. The evidence shows that he was originally buried in this pose,? the director of the team, Ali Mahforuzi, said.
This is the first burial in this style ever discovered in Iran. The archaeologists have not yet been able to determine why the man was buried in such a position.
?Beside the skeleton, a number of dishes have also been found which seem to have been presented to the warrior. One of the dishes has some holes in it containing the remains of coal. Archaeologists had discovered such dishes before, but they could not determine their practical application; but the traces of coal indicate that the dish has been used for burning agalloch or other types of incense. The skeleton was also wearing a beautiful coiled shell necklace,? Mahforuzi explained.
Covering an area of 40 hectares, Gohar-Tappeh is located near the town of Behshahr. Ruins and other artifacts unearthed in the region indicate that the site dates back to the Iron Age, but further study is required to determine its specific period during the Iron Age.
Archaeologists believe that the large extent of the site implies that the region had been very developed in trade and competed with neighboring areas.
On September 27, Mahforuzi announced that his team had discovered a number of bull statuettes, although most were broken into pieces. Afterwards they unearthed a skeleton of a child and a bronze pendant with a bull-horn motif at Gohar-Tappeh.
The team has recently discovered an unidentified artifact in a grave beside a skeleton, which some prominent musicians of Mazandaran believe looks like a clarinet. If the archaeologists can prove that the artifact is a musical instrument, the 3000-year-old relic would be the oldest musical instrument ever discovered in the region.
Mazandaran is one of Iran?s archaeological poles. Studies show that the region has been inhabited for over 400,000 years. Urbanization is thought to have developed in the region some time around 3000 BC, and the new findings at Gohar-Tappeh provide further evidence for this theory. The excavations, which aim to determine the style of urbanization of the site, will continue until late November.
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That, which confuses me much. There are many possibilities.
For example, when Legion X mutinied, Caesar wanted to disband them all and eject them from the army, but plead that they rather be decimated and so Caesar relented and none of them died because of Caesar's good will. It was also in the same case of Titus, he only executed the starters of the revolt.
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Did he actually kill every tenth man in the legion though or he just let them off the hook?I also recount that the legion that was based in Egypt during Diocletion's reign was decimated because the whole legion was Christian and so Diocletion who commanded they worship decimated them unmercifully knowing the full consequences.
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They use to be forts far furthur from Hadrian's wall when the Romans were successively subduing the Picts but because the Picts stopped coming out into open battle, which they decided to continue the fighting throught the hit and run tactics in the forests, the Roman could hold out any longer in part of Scotland and so then Hadrian's wall happened.(Correct me if I'm way off, I remembered watching the Discovery Channel's documentary on this.)
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Wowie, does it work in bright colors?
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The Holy Empire of Imperator Do has just joined the UNRV region.
Justinian's Reign - Success Or Failure?
in Postilla Historia Romanorum
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Justinian's dream was a false hope anyway because the Pope recognized that the Church finally had its own political power so he actually pretended that Justinian was the ruler Romae for a while. So the Pope planned to crown a novum imperatorem to counter Eastern emperors ruling the Church. So who happened to be in the spot for the job, it was Clovis, leader of the Franks. Clovis, who had a Christian wife, was outnumbered before a battle and his wife told him to appeal to God and so Clovis won the battle and decided to convert the Franks to Christianity. From there on, the Pope had politcal leadership and ties with the Merovingians(Frankish Dynasty)And so Charlemagne happened to come from Clovis family or the Merovingians. The Pope made a deal with Charlemagne to conquer the Lombards and Charlemagne would be the new emperor of the west to counter the eastern emperors.