Gaius Octavius

...or target practice for the Turks.

It is unfortunate that this find is partly on private property. I would hope that some university or museum in western Europe or the U.S. take up the task. The UN should be able to provide funds.

Pantagathus deserves applause for a lucid presentation of a somewhat obscure event.

This Zidane-Matterazzi thing goes on all the time in pro sports. Did M insult Z in French or does Z understand Italian? Sometimes what is understood in one language as nothing much translates into another as a criminal offence. Z had 84 minutes plus to get a goal against the 'inferior' team, maybe that micturated him off. Pulled Z's shirt? Oh, dear! Never saw that before in soccer! How would Z like it if someone clocked him in the sternum? "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never harm me." Get a life Z, you're not playing hockey.

Bush bashing? Not so! He hasn't the wits to get his heart going in the morning, let alone blood to his alleged 'brain'.

Ludovicus: Do you truly wish to compare Augustus to bush? Augustus was his own man and not the mouthpiece of a few plutocrats (or should I coin a term - proctocrats) and their masters.

I don't mean to be thick, but how did this effect the 'mind set' of the Romans, i.e., the will to build, conquer, etc.

Thank you very much Primus Pilus. Unfortunately, it is now loaded with pop-ups.

Or, what did Zidane say to start it?

Because one finds trade goods in an area, it does not follow that these goods or their makers had a critical influence on the people of that area. Here, I am referring to the mind set of the people. The Romans had a critical, essential, obvious and lasting effect on the peoples of Europe - even on those nations that they did not conquer. We don't have to guess at that.

Then there was Aeneas. Does that bring Carthage into the question? Am I getting the proper impression here, i.e., that the inate qualities of the Romans had little to do with their success? Should one conclude that if it weren't for Egypt via Greece and Greece itself, that Rome wouldn't have come about? Some claim that the original Romans were a bunch of run away slaves and bandits.

Some of the problems facing 'soccer' in the U.S. are: not enough head butting, time for commercials on TV, yellow and red cards and kids don't play pick-up games in the streets of cities.

Tch! Tch! So, you're that kind!

What were we talking about?

Does anyone know about Tim? He was on another Forum at roman-empire.net. He was making a movie about the Varrian Disaster and knew his stuff. He had a site where people could contribute to the making of the movie, but I lost it. I've checked the web and can't find him. If that movie ever comes about, I am sure it will be accurate. Any help will be appreciated. I have misspelled his name in the title. It should be Tim O'Neil.

One would figure that a quack could figure out an easier way. Maybe his HMO has a suicide out and he'll have to pick up the tab himself. Justice.

:notworthy:

What is: SCA ?

I thought that it was her, but wasn't sure. Note that I got the first and last letters right.

As much as I wish to see my adopted homeland do well, and thus promote the sport of the world here, the US will be waiting a LOOOOOONNNG time before they get a chance in a final. Football is one sport where steriods and $$$$ don't reign supreme. Your prayers worked for Italy, so get to work on the U.S. Four years? Twaddle! The U.S. went to the moon in less than ten. Oh, Iupiter, that's jingoism! I'm dead, once again. Just in case you are not old enough to remember, once upon a time we had Georgio Chinaglia, Franz Beckenbauer and the inimitable Pele on the Cosmos.

I hope that I am not misleading you, but I have a recollection of seeing a variation of SPQR on a giant boulder at the entrance to Herculaneum. There was a further inscription under it which indicated that Herculaneum was a colony of Rome. On a map of a town in Sicily, I have a vague recollection of seeing another variation with five letters. Again, indicating that it was a colony of Rome. Herculaneum also may have had five letters. The name Cologne, the city in Germany, is from the latin 'colonia'(?). I think that Germanicus' wife founded the city, but I don't remember her name. Thus it was: Colonia A______a, etc. There may be some words before the 'colonia', again on the same theme as SPQR.

A likely story!

My Dear Viggen: If you think that I don't know who put you up to this little ambushcade, you are sadly mistaken. You are in league with THOSE TWO. And now there are four who go down in flames. :sniper: It is a conspiracy, a cabal destined to fail. "I shall return!"

I don't know if it still exists, but a while back there was a Finnish shortwave program broadcast in Latin.

I think that it has something to do with a 'colony' of Rome. In my very bad Latin: Colonia Populusque Aquilea (or any other colony).