Gaius Octavius

Ouch! The Celts liberality towards women, children and the aged is instructive. This may be the case with most, if not all, so-called stone age backward tribal societies. I had always thought that Vercingetorix forced out of Alesia the non warriors because of the food problem. He had to hold out until the united tribes, allegedly 250,000 men, came to his rescue. Caesar, knowing this, did not allow the refugees to pass. Militarily, this sounds reasonable. But neither did Vercingetorix allow the refugees back into Alesia. This last seems to run contrary to the Celts principles. I also find it hard to understand why a nation so blessed with gold, did not become a major player on the world scene. The Greeks were at Masilla doing business with the Celts and they could very easily have taken advantage of the Greek culture as the Romans did. The Italian Celts were abuted on the Etruscans. As regards Britain, the same might apply in the case of Punic traders. Their presence in Central Europe and Asia Minor also allowed them intercourse with other "more advanced" societies. The commentary about the barbarity of Romans towards new borns seems a little overdone. After all, sacrificing of adults by the Druids is morally equivalent to exposing children and this was not a mandatory practice of the Romans. By the time of Caesar, I belive this practice had largely been only a memory. I guess that the British Celts were quite a thorn in the Romans' backside as they kept four legions stationed there. Thanks for pointing out the video.

Allegedly, the largest cast iron statue of Vulcan has been refurbished in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.

If you take your argument to its ultimate conclusion, then Rome would have had to conquer the entire world. I doubt if that could have been a possibility. Perhaps a different form of government and internal reorganization might have helped. Maybe Rome just got old and decayed and died like all organisms.

Doc of love: Let me help you out a bit. Pertinax said: Ahh, Many happy expressions. Pentagathus (lately dubbed Giovanni by yours truly) told Ginevra to take a bet that I am tippin' high cotton. I asked her if 10 lira was OK. Uppity Florentines! Mange na sfoilgliatelle cu na tasse 'e cafe invesia d' quelle cosa Fiorentina. I te bene assai, pura, O Serpe Nere P. S. It's 'Carthage' who is thinking Punic.

il Giovanni dice far

But, if you speak this dialect, can you speak italian or not? Poverella, I'll never tell. How did the other two guys do? Did you understand them? Umbriago, O Serpe Nere

I'm climbing out of my skin waiting for the Italians to get back here. Songa morte! O Serpe Nere

Marrona mia! L' eggo saputa! Moa teng due 'engop o colla mia. Si pudeva parle Grec, chiste due pudeven fa o stese. M'fan mange pan e pan come nu povera zappadore. Pentagathus e Pertinax, ba fa Napola! Come te piace moa? Me capite? O Serpe Nere

Pertinax & Pentagathus: Fly!, don't walk to the "Pronunciation - Words & Names" thread. Some boeotian has started posting in Neapolitan! What is the clod saying? Maj. Serpe Nere

Genevra: Bel 'e mom, i crede che tu si bel. Biondina, te piace assai. Si egge spialjad acca, Pertinax me fa jiete o sange. Stata boun j=y

yes i am. I dont like finnish, but i'm looking forward to learn norwegian. It isnt such a difficult language. After, i'd like to learn swedish... I think that those of you who are out to learn Swedish are going to have to deal with 'Tones'. Good luck. The so-called dialects are really languages in their own right. My grand aunt, who was Neapolitan, always spoke of people from other provinces as if they were foriegners. God had a bad day when and IF He created 'those' beings. I think that Neapolitan is more euphonius than Italian. "V", for example, can be (phonectically): Ven acca (come here); nu bene per terra (don't come from underground or Hell); dam oh ween (give me the wine).

Greetings to you both! Why don't you both enter which nation you are from in your profile?

:sniper: The First UNRV Football Wars have commenced! Go Yanks! The Sacred Chickens have eaten the spelt! :2guns:

Its name is Cynar.

He is an easy read. If only his observations about the one eyed people up north were so.

They came out slow and were absolutely shallacked. :fish: They will not advance, and I don't have a problem with it because they don't deserve to. Italy and the Czech Republic will advance as they should. They did not try to score all they did was protect something that was not even there. Gloat, Ramses, gloat. Remember that after Pearl Harbor, Tokyo Bay soon followed. Go Yanks, go!

Great pics, N.N.

Good Black Baron: I am returned as promised. Tounge honed, gloved in lead and shod in marble. I was sorely tempted to produce an Emergency Blog on the matter before us, but my world reknown clemency forbid such an action and thus considered it most prudent and gracious to keep the proceedings private. The extent of your vocabulary humbles me. Yet, the logic of your musings astounds me. Pantechnicon: You have your words collected and exposed for sale? No taker here. Tergiservation: Suffer a type of evasion? How can one do this in the sense used? Incalescence: Mental or otherwise, please see above comment. Are you of a certainty that you really wish to make use of this verbiage and make no sense at all? Let us take on: aggled, mollions and cymbocephalic. Have you abducted these last from the Cymric tounge or some ancient archaic lexicon produced by the most laudable Dr. Johnson and long ago supplanted? In this last case and as a practicing Doctor of Metaphysics, I commend and prescribe to you 60mg of Cymbalta, B.I.D. This, hopefully, will rein in your prattle. I take it that in the future you are going to mock me with Colonial Usage. As I am compiling a dish of Yankee and Dixie slang, you had better get a thesaurus that goes the otherway lest you be asea. All the above twaddle notwithstanding, you are a profit to this site and a source of much knowledge and wonderful pictures. As soon as my Bride enters the domus today, I shall instruct her to pour the last of the planter's whiskey and I shall drink to the health, happiness and prosperity of you and your gens. I remain your most obedient servant, Captain Black Adder P. S. How about accepting my challenge as to the serial usage of the word 'that'? C.O.

Speaking of the Trans-Atlantic rabble, let us conduct an investigation of the English word 'corn': Corn. Korn, n. [ A. Sax. corn, a word found throughout the Teutonic languages, of same root as L. granum, a seed. Akin to kernal, grain.] Apologies will be gracefully accepted. Polenta is nothing but gruel. That is why we of Neapolitan heritage abjure it in favor of macaroni. Lost_Warrior, be adventuresome!

Now, now, my good man, we do know that pre Johnsonian spelling was much what one liked, but we are post Johnsonian. I will give you that Pres. Andrew Jackson once held: "It's a damned poor man who can't spell a word more than one way." The red wine bit is a much more acceptable excuse. :bag: I wonder why I have the unworthy impression that a certain party is making up words?

Try searching under 'Spelt'. That was a grain from which Romans made Bread.

A group of Roman Catholics, called the Malabar Rite exists there. St. Thomas is alleged to have gone to India. Yet, I conclude nothing from this as regards the port.

Sirrah: You are DOOMED! I shall return! :sniper: And when I do, I shan't spell (of all things) TONGUE wrong. Tounge!, in deed, my good fellow! ^_^ Your dictionary of Colonial Usage will not serve you! Remember who won the war. :2guns: Captain Black Adder