Gaius Octavius

:wub: Apocryphal!

Would you please explain this? I am lost.

From which is derived: 'Parting shot' = 'Parthian shot'.

Thanks all y'all for your hard work. Haven't decided, yet, on which side of my family to put my great (x 1,000) Great Grandmother, Venus, [who rolled around in the hay with my great (x 1,000) Great Grandfather, Anchises], on.

OK,OK, I'll sell it for $ 59.99 plus S & H. And you get the Mona Lisa for FREE!

Negroponte wasn't/isn't a life long civil servant? Well, then, how about Tenent? Iran-Contra well known? - well, that is until someone spilled the beans. I have no intention to carry this any further.

How about Negroponte in Central America?

WW: AoS, of course!

This isn't true at all. Saddam never 'took' permission, he had one meeting with Amb. Glaspie where she failed to give him a strong enough warning, and there's speculation a US warning wouldn't have worked anyway. She had to deal with the fallout to her career and reputation ever since. V61, I believe that you are in error. When asked the question by Saddam, she answered that border adjustments would not be a concern of the U.S., as I said in an earlier post. Again, Saddam could easily have assumed that this was his reward for the Iran-Iraq War. There could also have been a translation problem. He was still a pal of the U.S. then. It could also be that someone in the Bush I administration woke up to the fact that there once was a rhombus shaped piece of land between Saudi Arabia and Iraq, one of whose points bordered on Kuwait, that had been a bone of contention between the former two.

N.C. :wub: : Note how close 9/22 is to the Autumnal Equinox and 3/19 is to the Vernal Equinox.

I can't understand the oil business. Oil is a fungible commodity. During Soviet times, the U.S. couldn't sell grain to the USSR, nor import oil from them. The solution was to use Algeria as a middle man, i.e., the U.S. sold grain to Algeria, and the Soviets, oil to them. Both using foreign flagged ships. Title to cargo switched in mid ocean. If Saddam (or anyone else) stopped selling oil directly to the West, it would release supplies from other suppliers to be sold to the West. He (or the other suppliers) would continue to sell oil on the world market - they all want to get the loot into their Swiss bank accounts. Perhaps, this is where the Seven Deadly Sisters, the Carlyle Group, Bechtel and Halliburton come into the picture. Agreed, but the Reagan administration looked the other way while he used them in his own country. True, this may have been critical to to keeping order in a unified Iraq, but as bad as it sounds I think things would be better off if the country had been left to fracture along cultural lines and I think it will ultimately end up this way. Regime change should primarily be left up to the people in whatever country is in question. And then there was Iran-Contra. (editing some horrible grammar in my quote - Moon)

P.P., what I was trying to get at is: wouldn't this indicate that the Carthaginian Senate did have at least some 'military' control?

P.P., why not take Caesar at his word? If my memory serves, he left a fleet to guard the Gallic coast.

"I could be wrong, but I thought we Romans have been celebrating New Year's Day on the 1st of Ianuarius since the year of the Consuls Ti. Annius Luscus and Q. Fulvious Nobilior (in 601 A.U.C.)? Regardless, I don't like those pesky two new months added in the winter, which have thrown off the whole numbering system. Happy New Year, Octavi carissime! -- Nephele" ------------------------------------------------------0------------------------------------------------------------------- The Jewish New Year was celebrated on Sept. 23, 2006, or 1 Tishrei I, 5767, the Autumnal Equinox of the Gregorian calendar. (The Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar containing 13 months.) In Constantinople, a calendar was introduced in the year_____A.D., which calculated the years from the Beginning of the World in 5508 B.C. The New Year was celebrated on Sept. 1, of the Julian calendar. If 13 days are added to put it into the Gregorian calendar, that would make last Sept. 14th the beginning of the year 7515. (Close enough to the Autumnal Equinox - for government work.) Adding 13 days to the Gregorian calendar makes January 14th the Julian New Year. The Romans were sloppy calendar keepers. They used an astrological calendar. March 1st was the beginning of the New Year prior to 601 A.U.C. (Ab Urbi Condita - From the Beginning of the City) - see above. Originally, the year had 10 months with 304 days and 51 or 52 days added on after December. Someone started calling the last 51 or 52 days February and January. Someone then switched these two around, ergo, January and February. March 1st is still the beginning of the New Year. Then, the Divine Iulius inserts January and February into the beginning of the year, making Jan. 1st the start of the New Year. Assuming that the 'March' of both the astrological and Julian calendars are the same, (in time), then the Gregorian March 14th begins the old Roman New Year. (Close enough - for government work - to the Vernal Equinox.) BUT, since I have no idea on which date of the astrological calendar the Glorious Iulius started his year, and that the Romans were basically an agrarian people, I conclude that the Vernal Equinox, March 21, 2007 A.D., is the beginning of the Roman New Year - 2761. (Also assuming that my sloppy math is correct.) Conclusions: 1. Let me be the first to wish you a Happy Roman New Year on March 21, 2007. 2. Was the 'Constantinople' calendar used for legal and/or public purposes? 3. Since Roman Christians accept both the Old and New Testaments, this gives them at least 3 New Years to celebrate. Also has the advantage of getting away from the Candelabra-Christmas tree bit (in the U.S.), and goes a long way to ridding the world of anti-Semitism. And it also gives them more holidays to be off from work. 4. In addition to being a Senator and a Quaestor, I am a Genius!

WW, what's so good? Your bumbershoot or the babe?

Didn't the Carthaginian 'Senate' recall Hannibal from Italy to defend their city before Scipio?

Cara N.C., :wub:, we will have at the date of the Roman New Year in another post. So, load up your pea shooter. I hold to present date March 21. No responses, please. This is N. C's thread.

Thanks, A.D. & FVC, I guess that it is up to my genius to invent a word that covers all bases.

You have to wait for March to arrive!

... after the temples were desecrated.

As you may have noted lately, His Greekship :notworthy: and I had a cheese luncheon together. We introduced ourselves to 'Blue Gouda'. Fantastic! Just plain sublime! He gifted me a bottle of Trappiste Rochefort beer(?). Last night my Domina and I opened the Trappiste (as instructed); she toasted Pantagathus and then we had at it. This is what the gods drink! Best beer I have ever tasted! Domina agrees on both accounts. Didn't want to put anything else in my mouth for fear of losing the tastes. Now, I may die!

I know that government at all levels has little, if any, interest in the average joker. The S.E.C. with its complicated, opaque and unintelligible rules and regulations, written by a bunch of schiesters, plutocrats and servile CPA's, has absolutely no interest in the investor. It exists to protect the industry. Ditto for all the other agencies. Corporations and plutocrats do, in reality, run the show. Yet, in no way do I want to return to the good old days of excrement laden food, private roads and streets, snake oil purveyors, fire traps and union busting. Don't you know that some dung moon is God!?

While you are at it: My great, great, great, great, great, Great Grandmother is.... Instead of repeating 'great', is there a Latin term or phrase to indicate this?

I have Resolved: 1. Never to tell you anymore Lies anymore! 2. Not to Strangle :mummy: ! 3. Not to steal anymore of Girls anymore! 4. Not to Telepoison MPC! 5. Not to Taunt My Lord of the Herbs :notworthy: anymore! 6. Not to Taunt My Lord of the Greeks :notworthy: anymore! 7. To be Nicer to DoL, G, L_W, and NC! :wub: 8. Not to Edit WW's posts! -_- 9. Not to speak Neapolitan anymore! 10. Not to be Sarcastic on the Forum! Capt. Black Addder, Ret'd [seal] So, what did you Resolve?

Dr. A.D.: After 2,000 years you Brits are finally getting into trampling on grapes. That's Roman, and should prove profitable. Do you approve? Perhaps, the Romans visited Wales because of their language. The Black Adder wouldn't pass water on the Scots. Lack of Roman civilization? Need I repeat? :nopity: :hang: :shutup: