Sextus Roscius
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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.....
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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.
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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.
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The Cataline Conspiracy! of course Cicero blew it incredibly out of porportion, I stand by my hero is saying that Cotalina might have posed a threat to the Roman state. Thanks to Ciceros young prode'ge Caelius, the plot was discovered!
Still failed though, Cataline got his rear beaten by the army of the Senate.
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Translate this please:
"If I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. If I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a comunist."
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I've kept my Cicero bust avatar, however I've used a new quote which I like alot. I'm really into these contradictory quotes lately.
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I'd have to say over indulgance. General culture of the average american is full of things that are simlpy abused rights and excessive amounts. I don't wish to go into it any furthur, any questions about my opinion I won't answer here.
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Ha, I agree with Tobias, we history geeks finaly are getings some recognition
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*Frets* just wait till you see the numbers written as words(though I doubt the Romans would want to write in words, but how are you gonna pronounce the number if you can't say the words.) its absolutely horrible to memorize them all, even with the fractions, not to mention memorizing both the cardinal and ordinal variety.
I know what you are talking about, but due to a ton of practicing I've gotten really good at doing Mathmatics in Roman Numerals. Quite simply, I don't think it bothered them, and it obviously didn't hinder their ability to create fantastic engineering structures. I beleive they simply thought "we have made among the greatest achomplishments in the world, such as our armies, our structures, our politics and culture. All using our number system. Look at the countries that use other systems, we conquered them, if not in military terms, we beat them in an architectural and cultural sense. Why use their number system when ours works perfectly fine and doesn't hinder our capabilities"
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HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA! That would be my Social Studies teacher. He COMPLETELY fails to accept that people were incredibly smart 2000 years ago. He thinks warfare was barbaric and fails to recognize all the strategy behind it. He also HATES the idea of imperialism with a passion, being what I can only describe as a Ganhiaphile or a Satyagrahaist. He also uses things from the anceint world, but since nobody(besides me) has an idea of what he is refering to, it leaves them with acompletely wrong impression of Rome.
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To state my opinion simply, the a government ruled by a Triumvirate is like comunism. It is a great idea in theory, but it is impossible to use practicaly.
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HA! If I received the assignment, the moment I read the instructions I would've burst out laughing, then gone completely quite, walked up to the teacher, and explain why I thought it was inapropriate. But on another part of the subject
Last fall the school principal accepted responsibility for questionable work-study credits given to a member of the football team that kept him eligible to play. The controversy led the team to forfeit four wins -- its only victories of the season and the first in two years.Why did they include that?
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I do love his defence of Sextus, but I agree with his philosophy. I also think he was a great politician and lawyer who knew that politicians don't make good generals and therefore didn't become one. I also admire his skills as a lawyer (I plan to go into law)
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If anyone knows of contemporary books on these too, I'd like to know. (sorry to use your thread Urus, but I didn't want to waste forum space.)
Cicero... of course for me
The Roscii family?
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To choose one, I'd personaly love to meet Cicero, he has always been a sort of role model to me, I've love to see what his ideas on everything were.
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I remember the first hurricane I ever had to ride through when I moved to the (American) South. I thought it couldn't be that bad, I mean really. Hurricane Hugo in 1989 changed my opinion, it can be that bad and although North Carolina gets a bad one only ever three or four years there's nothing like seeing the carnage a one can bring. No power for days, trees fallen across roads, power lines down, houses damaged, etc. They're a mess and I don't miss them.
Yup yup yup, we do get bad ones every few years, Its all becuase south carolina isn't big enough to protect us, of course the outer banks get the worst of it. It ruins tons of hotel businesses....and destroys our lovely light houses, but not to worry too much. When I was a little kid we got hit by some bad one that managed to get farther inland and a tornado was spoted in a county right next to mine, we were all scared.... Not pleasant memories. Don't miss them...
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Ha, choose UNC, you'll be in the same town as I am... anyways, UNC is great and comes with tons of nice little things, like a good basketball team (if your interested in that) and a beautiful campus full of town landmarks, as well as the planatarium, yada yada yada. Though incredibly hard to get into, especialy if you live in North Carolina. If you're good, I'd go for it.
But if UNC doesn't let you in, flip the nickel and head for Devils, though Duke has a MUCH prettier campus, with a huge park/garden thing. Though since I'm only a middle schooler I can't give you much more than that.
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I'm not sure, how ever twins would be even rarer than they are today, becuase twins are often a result of fertility drugs or other things of that type etc. However, I'm sure the Romans simply chose the one born first within the 1 minute or however long for politics and second one along for the military, however I wonder what they'd do with triplets...
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very well educated posts pertinax, and I beleive pantagathus was making a coment on wooden piping in Britian.
Yes, wooded piping was used in Britian becuase it was easy to find, and epecialy acessable to the Roman legions stationed in forts along Hadrion's wall. They did this by taking a tree, cutting it down and removing all the branches. They then some how hollowed out the inside and viola! A pipe.
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I assume they just used sundials, so time was realitive only to the person's position. It wouldn't matter at that time period becuase people simply couldn't travel fast enough to have effective lag time between trips, simple as that.
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ah, I still think my answer makes some sense, though I combined of our two would catch up alot of stuff. However, wouldn't people die inevidably while laying the piping, wouldn't the poisening get them, I'm sure the water they were drinking would be lead filled in addition to the amount on their hands etc..
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ah that makes sense, well, the words I can understand at least, you're very good at explaining.
personaly I had always thought that eventually algy, or something of that sort had grown onto the lead eventually that didn't allow much, if any lead to be exposed to the water. This eventually kept it from being toxic. Of course the flaw in my theory is that some people say that the water would be moving too quickly for algy to grow. Is this in any way correct?
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According to what I was reading some where, swallowing lead was supposably a cure for a stomach ache....
English to Latin Translation
in Lingua Latina
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Don't get too cocky Flavius, the main difference in our latin knowledge is vocabulary... I'll catch up at some point.