Sextus Roscius

I support it.

lets see, um... 6-shot revolver (w/ only a standard amunition box of rounds) Military Grade Survival kit (from my uncles farm...) Latin dictionary

Insectophobia (at least I call it that) Basicaly scared of anything with 0, 1,3,5 or more legs...

Me semper rogo, quid faceret Iulius Caeser?

Yes yes yes, I need to vent. I'm completely upset today for no particular reason about the Terrorists! Stupid stupid stupid terrorists. I agree that western culture (american in particular) is far too sexual, and that something needs to change that, but I doubt they or we are going to get any where by being gun-slinging nut jobs on a stick.... Though my least favorite part, is knowing that its OUR country's fault for letting Iran become a nuclear power... Please, in responses, don't give me any "why can the rest of the world not have nukes if america can. shouldn't we get rid of all our nukes before we go about getting rid of other country's nukes?" thats the junk that my social studies teacher hands out on a daily basis.

the gov't really needs to focous on bigger issues than child *or*, I'm sorry, but Its not that big a problem to me. I'd much rather have teenagers looking at models on a screen that making themselves look stupid in real life.... though I still don't support it....don't get me wrong, I just think the gov't should move on to bigger things. Personaly I think this is mostly a little fiasco they're pulling to draw attention from the NSA ordeal.

You see, the only thing stoping us from doing anythign efficiant in the Middle East is those (excuse my language) *** **** terrorists who don't know when to f***ing stop! What the hell! These people have officialy suceeded in becoming THE MOST ANNOYING people on Earth, and the worst part is, we can't do a stinking thing about it becuase they'll bomb the capital with some idiot with bombs straped to their back! Personaly, I say we take some decisive military action. Its all our fault in the first place though for allowing countries like Iran and N. Korea to build up these nuclear arsenals. I apologize for the intinsity of what I just said, I needed to vent.

good, becuase I made a file before asking...

is it free?

Army field rations in modern day aren't alot, trust me, I tried living off them for a week, not very good either, but they are specialy made to keep you fit and running. I think the romans did this as well. Roman Army rations were not made to be tasty or to be served in huge quanities, just to keep soldiers running in tip-top condition.

AQUEDUCTS Aqueducts, these were the driving force in Roman sanitation, running water, and indeed holding up their lifestyle. Aqueducts allowed even the poorest in Roman cities to be treated to the amazing things that we today consider impossible to do 2 thousand years ago, such as flushing toilets, elaborate bath houses, and fountains. The most amazing thing is that aqueducts allowed people access to these pleasures for no charge at all. Surely aqueducts were among, if not the greatest feat of civil engineering completed by the Romans, or any culture at all. All of this came from a simple concept. THE IDEA: Aqueducts are a simple idea; you put a pipe of water leading to a city. The ancients realized this, but they had no way of pushing water along of a horizontal surface efficiently, so they had to use gravity. So as a revised idea, a slanted pipe runs to your city. Now the ancients would

UNRV, Nationstates, nothing much else that might be of intrest to you, unless you have an intrest in realistic WWII games and other neat stuff.

Oh my god! I knew there was something out there! I knew it... I say we colonize the place, make it part of America, also, we need to ask those mexicans why they never told us about this exotic land!

Thats one that supports my view...l

Please note that I meant the shack of guns out on the farm as a joke. Also, I apologize for you being offended by my statements, I've just always had a very negative view towards "goth" and things like that. Only more so the extreme ones though, if you've dyed your hair green, you've gone to far. But I don't mind if you just have friends that wear black and what not. Sorry, I obviously wasn't thinking clearly when I wrote my post, in the mists of something or other...

Its impossible to thank The admin and our mods, as well as the comunity here at UNRV enough for the times they've given me. It was such a releif to come on the forum the first time, and to always have a group of people who I can voice my opinoins to and have intelectual discussions as well as having a good time. I echo all thats been said as well, you really couldn't have done a better job, any of you.

Uh oh, then you'll kick my butt in two areas, of the irony. Have fun with greek anyways.

Welcome to UNRV! I hope you'll like it here. I'm sure you've taken the time to look around the forum so I shant bother you about that. Just, this thread would be more correctly placed in the Romana Humanitas or Imperium Romanorum forums. As for info, the Romans did use metal nails. Wooden pegs were surpassed by that time, so the book is correct in saying that nails would've been used. Pegs migh have worked to hold the cross together, but to put things simply, you can't nail some one to a cross with wooden pegs. However I welcome my fellows to correct me If I'm wrong.

I'll bet you a penny you are, if your are right, keep the change! I figured I was taking things to literaly.... Don't get too cocky Flavius, the main difference in our latin knowledge is vocabulary... I'll catch up at some point.

The reason most gladiators weren't killed: so money could be made of (and we have the same things in boxing and wrestling) grudge matches and rematches. The things like "Bob beats John in Boxing Match" two months later "John takes Bob on in a rematch for the Belt" or something of that sort, I'm sure Romans were smart enough to capitalize off that. Then again.....there were other more conventional reasons too.....

I' love to say "I know what your talking about" but I can't, and don't care to. Sorry. Bomb threats are a major issue now though, and the gov't is taking them very seriously. Nothing ever happens at my school honestly. Heck, we've got a few wackos that are goth or what ever it is, I have no respect what so ever for them, so I figure if they get around to doing something (other than to themselves) it will be towards me and my lot. I'm prepared for that though, we don't keep the family farm around for nothing, come after me, I'll be a county away with a shack of rifles and enough ammo keep the table full of veniscene for the months to come. I advise everyone else follow this idea and to be like me, that way when something insane happens, you can come over to my farm and we can hunt together.... Anyways, sorry to get off track. All I can say is that must of been a real annoyance. Fortunetly, we don't have to fly in the k9 unit...

Personaly, I think the Subura was really well described by Steven Saylor in his "Roma Sub Rosa" series involving Gordianus the finder (see Flavius's review of The Venus Throw) which uses some pretty good examples of the life there. Anything one can possibly imagine, rich landlords, huge 3 level apartment tenants, Brotherels, slaves, and objects and possessions galor, not to mention any combinations of them! Of course, thats life for ya.

sorry flavius, even in my limited knowledge of latin, isn't there a better word than "miserum"? To my knowledge that simply translates to "wretched" Sorry, just saying.