Gaius Octavius

Take P.P.'s advice. He knows what of he writes. Good luck with the Latin , Greek and French footnotes.

The cost of housing does sit well with you? Sort of goes to proove P. Clodius charitable comments. Or editing has gotten the better of you. P.C. forgot to mention those little brush fires that seem to cause no end of consternation to the rustics.

Do you also enjoy earthquakes, mudslides, bankrupt state economy, etc...? NYC is where all civilized people choose to habit, n'est pas Octavius? Let me explain how things are. America ends at the Hudson River - period. The part of NY beyond, is merely a charity case. That includes staten island. The rest are merely dependent appendages, divided into provinces, outlieing rural districts, flood plain, and boondocks. They avariciously suck up NYC's gold to foster their errant pre-historic hystrionics whilst they eat their livers out. Kali4kneeya is a special case. All 's gravitate there and are in the process of befouling our language and food.

If nothing more, you will get a list of the players from Augustus onwards. You can make up your own mind as regards his opinions.

Back to the point in the article, gentlemen. Why would the Brits going back to 100BC have a Roman style abode?

Pleasant guitar.

MPC, in complete agreement on all counts.

That makes my day! Now I feel that I have earned another libation.

You may be intoxicated. Well, yes, but of course. Nonetheless you are most helpful, My Lord.

Aha! And thanks much. Will try to pay attention next time.

In one post the title should have been 'WNYC' but I fouled up and wrote 'Wnyc'. In the other 'Legionary Training - Ii' instead of '...II' Using the 'edit' function, I couldn't correct them. I am a computer dumbkoph, as you might have noticed.

When I err in the 'Topic Title', I don't seem to be able to correct it. Any help here?

Back to 100 BC covers a multitude of sins. Thank you for clearing up the matter. A door knob could have given me that bit of intelligence, Your Grace.

Not a revelation, but infection is still one of the major killers in hospitals. As to the gut wound, how was the victim fed and watered? Wouldn't it fall out before the wound healed? I wonder how 'clean hands' went out of style.

I am a little confused (as usual). Why would the Brits of 100 BC have Roman style houses?

Probably is still in better shape than most of the roads in NY.

I don't think that it would be a long shot to believe that the Romans sang. I am also sure that they had 'high' and 'low' singing. Where was it done? Did they have anything like our opera houses or cabarets? I would also guess that the lads had marching songs and camp ditties. Is there a record of these and are they ever performed today? Do the reenactors perform these on the march or in camp?

What hath Lord Palmeston that neither the erudite counsel of King James nor the greatest playwright William Shaxpere of Stratford-upon-Avon hath? Surely we favor the latter! I daresay thou art wrong! Thy elementary paedagogue perhaps hath told thee that thou must needs never begin a sentence with a conjunctive, but beloved English careth not for such trivial nuances. Certainly it is not formal, but incorrect it is neither. If we may assume that we speak as we write, then There is quite a difference betwixt "proper English" and "correct English". I never claimed the former but only the latter. Hast thou ever read a true manuscript of Shaxper? And anon it shall arise again. Cordially. Are you a member of A.S.S.E.S. - American Society of Sophomoric English Scholars? Cordially,

Some might enjoy: WNYC

Crasssus was also an infamous usurer.

Same citation as in Part I; pp 69-71. "Tacitus tells how Corbulo overcame similar difficulties with Eastern troops in the winter of AD 57-8. 'Corbulo's major task was to deal with the idleness of his own men; the treachery of the enemy was less of an obstacle. The legions transferred from Syria, demoralized by long years of peace, did not take kindly to the discipline of a Roman camp. It was common knowledge that there were old soldiers in his army who had never been on guard or on a watch, who paid visits to the rampart and ditch to look upon remarkable novelties, who possessed neither helmets nor breastplates, but were smartly dressed businessmen who had done all their service in towns. So he discharged those who were too old or whose health was bad, and called for reinforcements. Recruiting took place throughout Galatia and Cappadocia, and a legion was sent from Germany with its compliment of auxiliary cavalry and infantry. The whole army was kept under canvas, though the winter was so hard that the ground was icebound and needed excavation before tents could be pitched. The cold was so severe that many suffered from frost-bite, and one or two men were frozen to death while on guard. A case was reported of a soldier who was carrying a bundle of logs; his hands were frozen so hard that they became fastened to his load and fell off from the stumps of his arms. Corbulo himself wore little and went about bareheaded. He was constantly with his men both on the march and at their duties, congratulating the hard working and comforting the sick. He was an example to all. When the harshness of the climate and the service became too much for many and they deserted, he looked for the cure in severity. Indulgence was not shown to first offenders, or to second offenders either, as in other armies, but any man who deserted the colours paid for it at once with his life. Experience showed that this course of action was salutary, and better than sympathetic treatment, for there were fewer desertions than in those camps where mercy was shown.' "The recruits are now ready for training in battle formations, the single line, the double line, the square, the wedge and the circle. Vegetius devotes a chapter to describing the usefulness of these. 'There is nothing which has proved to be of greater service in action than for the men to learn by constant practice to keep their alloted position in the line, and nowhere to close or to open their ranks disadvantageously. Men packed closely together have no room for fighting and merely get in one another's way. Similarly, if they are too scattered and there is too much daylight between them they give the enemy an opportunity of breaking through. Inevitably, if the line is cut through and the enemy attacks the fighting troops from behind, there is immediate panic and universal disorder. So the recruits should always be taken out to the square and drawn up in line according to the order of the nominal roll in such a way that, in the beginning, they dress in a single straight line without any bends or curves, and with every man separated from his neighbor by an equal and correct distance. Next they must be commanded to form a double line in quick time, and in such a manner that they take their dressing from the file they cover. The third stage is to order them suddenly to form a square. After this the formation should be changed to a triangle. (This they call a "wedge".) The last arrangement has been found to be extremely useful in action. There is also an order to form circles: well-trained troops have steadied themselves in this formation after the line has been broken by the enemy's attack, and they have prevented a mass rout and a serious crisis. If the young soldiers perfect these movements by constant practice they will more easily keep their ranks in real fighting.' "

It seems that either the back hoe operator or owner of the property had the good sense to re-bury it in the bog until the archeologists arrived. The cover is made of a hard red leather with two seals on it. The pages are made of a sheep velum.

I am not sure of the time frame but all Roman soldiers were trained in first aid. There also were ambulances in the legions. Supposedly, more 'Gauls' were killed by the gladius, than in all their wars added together since, until the Germans broke the record in WWI. I wonder if the Romans treated the enemy (for slaves).

Perhaps this is a bit off topic. He had his own personal fire brigade. When a fire broke out in Rome, they would respond but not put the fire out until the owner was made to see that it was best to sell the property to Crassus - at his price. He was also Caesar's largest creditor. I am not so sure that his efforts in the war against Sparticus could be called a success. Sparticus out witted Crassus too often.

MPC, that is called rhetoric. I am no fan of Cicero, but this went on in Roman courts all the time. Money did, does and always will buy 'justice'. It is a schiester's duty to defend his client to the best of his ability.