Sextus Roscius
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Have you actually found the play it comes from yet Sextus?
Yes I have.
Its from a play by T. Maccius Plautus, called Poenulus
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the murderer is traumatized by their own act, that split second heat of the moment action.
Perhaps, though I hate to combined ethics and morales and the law unless absolutely nessacary, the living with the tourture of knowning they killed a person they loved would be more punishment then simply being killed?
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I'm largely uneducated in languages having taken 5 years of French (which I never liked) in elementary school, then a year of spanish (couldn't trill -R's) then I didn't take a language the next year so I forgot most of my spanish I had learned, and then wound up in Latin this year which I absolutely love with all my heart. I'd love to learn anceint greek when and if I ever get around to it but all in all I'm not a linguistics type person.
At least I have a very extensive comand of english.
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Agreed P.P., it really doesn't have the effect it used to. It only serves to satisfy the prosecution witht he knowledge of justice served. The masses (do to humanitarians) have no idea of what happens to those people other than that they were executed and so that doesn't provide a deterent to the other people who will commit more acts to be executed.
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Personaly I think this is just the spark the world needed to set off the racial wars, perhaps I'm wrong, but this is a perfect example of how a small minor law breaking can become an issue of international importance and can cause mass riots world-wide.
It's just the tip of the iceberg I fear, the best we can do is not take part and remain on our current paths.
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Thank heavens, I was hoping we'd kill him, what a sicko, you should've heard some of the things the witnesses quoted from him and records of taped phone conversations. How could you not kill a guy who killed a family and started one of the worst gangs in the U.S.?
I'm largely selective my my favoritism on Capital Punishment. Capital Punishment should be used for people found guilty of intentional mansluaghter, murder, and all charges rating higher above. I also am teatering on my opinion of wether of rape should be punishible by death, but its only a slight part of me that beleives so, having known people who where raped, or almost raped. It scares people for life, affects their social life, and just about everything.
Largely it depends on the case and I'd have to see the actual trial, acusations, and evidence to decide wether I actualy beleive capital punishment is acceptable so it is hard to write a general opinion.
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::smiles:: it's pretty. Me likes.
I'm starting to see the Jar-Jar resemblence already
I just changed my signature now, its a quote from play that I've found relevant to modern life alot and sounds really good. I think they altered the words in the translation to make them rhyme.
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I want a translation of it now, its becoming one of my favorite sayings.
"May the gods confound him, who first invented the hours, and who placed the first sundial in Rome!"
"Pity me, pity me! They have segmented my day like the teeth of a comb! When I was a boy my stomach was my clock, and it never sterred me wrong; now even if the table overflows there's no eating till shadows are long. Rome is rule by the sundial; Romans starve and thirst all the while!"
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In my eyes, all the traditional Roman values from the Republican times, and the traditional fear, power, glory, knowledge, wealth, and all around sense of what Rome truely meant fell when the eternal city was overun by the Barbarians. The Byzantines followed new beleifs, ideas, and strategies that were not the same as what it originaly meant to be Roman. Rome technacily survived after the fall of the Eternal city, but the infasturcture, lifestyle, and values that were traditionaly Roman fell. This can be seen becuase right after the western Empires fall Europe descended into fudeal states and they destroyed the great infastructure the Romans had put up.
Ultimatly, The Roman Empire ended with no hope of recovery in the year Romulus Agustus (Ironic isn't it) and the Eternal city were no longer controled by Romans.
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Thank you very much Flavius, I need to find that play now.... I love that line so much though.
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No, he is not guilty of murder. The man was let into the room to look at the meats by the butcher but instead went to commit suicide by tieing this neck to the ceiling and standing on a block of ice. Once the heat from the outside of the room caused the ice to melt he was hung. The melted ice explains the pool of water.
Very well done Sextus Roscius, you're far too good for me
But then, if you really look at all the facts given, it is pretty simple in the end. It is only an apparently difficult riddle because of the large amount of information given, some of it irrelevant and intended to lead down the wrong track.
Oh goody, I was right then. How bout this one.
If Johny has two apples and sally has three, why don't they shut up and eat? Seriously, I need an explantion.
hmmmm, I need to come up witha better one...
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I found this one rather funny.
"May the gods confound him, who first invented the hours, and who placed the first sundial in Rome!""Pity me, pity me! They have segmented my day like the teeth of a comb! When I was a boy my stomach was my clock, and it never sterred me wrong; now even if the table overflows there's no eating till shadows are long. Rome is rule by the sundial; Romans starve and thirst all the while!"
If any one can tell me what play its from thought.
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Well flavius, one thing for sure is you are well on your way.
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oh ok then, does that mean he is not coming back, aw. Oh well, thank you Viggen
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No, he is not guilty of murder. The man was let into the room to look at the meats by the butcher but instead went to commit suicide by tieing this neck to the ceiling and standing on a block of ice. Once the heat from the outside of the room caused the ice to melt he was hung. The melted ice explains the pool of water.
You stayed more than two days. You didn't say you ONLY stayed two days, but if you spend six days you also spent two daysAlso, this one is wrong. I went to town on my horse named Friday on the Day of the Week Tuesday, spent ONLY two days there, and came back on The day of the Week Thursay
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Just a brief question. Why is the "Ask the Expert" topic in The Empire forum no longer pinned?
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Well made concerns Tobias, these are temporary titles meant for honor only. Anyone who gets to upity can have their title (and membership) striped by our wonderful Admins. I also mean that with knowing many of the people who would be more likely to receive titles, there would be little chance of one getting to upity. I'm sure we aren't going to find too many people on a Romanophile website that are going to consider themselves higher becuase they are, lets say tribune, for a month or two.
I think it depends on how far we go with different titles. And what for.
Overall I'm glad people are at least commenting on my ideas.
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I believe the vatican is only Roman in the sense that they never lost their title. Thought you can hardly call some one Roman becuase they speak Latin. The people of the vatican don't hold any old Roman traditions, they don't follow the Roman social system, and to call the Vatican Rome would be an insult (in my mind) to Rome's legacy which I don't think was lived up to by the Vatican or its members.
Sorry if I offended anyone... I have some what biased views on the Vatican.
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ok, here is a really lame one.
I went to town on Friday, stayed two days, and came back on Thursday. How is this possible?
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Has no one said the Sybil books from the oracle at Cumae that were suppose to tell the future of Rome that were only consulted in times of dire peril. Its a shame, when the Romans finaly bought them from the Oracle, most of them were already gone. They were kept under the temple of saturn but were unfortunatly destroyed durring a fire.
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Salve Magister,
Excuse my Latin if it is incorrect. I digress thought, I was wondering whether the Romans knocked(on peoples doors) with their foot or their hand. I've read different things in different places and would appreciate it.
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As Flavius said, thats histerical. I'll just remember that when I need a laugh! "Go to hell!"
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Most certainly Germanicus, all of these would be rewards for contributions and there wouldn't be any special privleges to the people recieving the honor titles, just prestige.
I don't think there would be any fighting between the groups becuase most people on UNRV (expecialy the ones likely to recieve these titles) are good natured people and don't want to cause trouble. Also as Germanicus said, these are Honorific titles.
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No! I've got it Lost Warrior. Every Direction is south so you are at the north pole, that would make the only bears out there (if they even live taht far north) white!
Capital Punishment
in Hora Postilla Thermae
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As done by the romans, I would much rather die than go to prison, to sit for days in a cell would be to me but hanging in the state between life and death for how ever long my sentance was. I'd rather die.