Gaius Octavius

Fecularia?

I thought that they used towers and cisterns to take care of big drops.

Nice people.

What is the big deal? I've seen that leprechaun quite often . It's not a pot of gold at the end! It's

Sorry I asked. I should have known that it would be a thing.

Juvenile Diabetes?

Can I ask where you got the figure of 95% from for the 'foreign' recruits in the army?? Sonic I was using memory. This does not answer your question, but goes a long way to doing so: http://www.roman-empire.net/army/army.html I'll try to find the proper citation.

Since I have no idea of what you two are talking about, whooz the babe down at the bottom?

Wooden pipes are still in use in New York City. The Roman engineers tunneled through mountains to get the water to cities in as much of a straight line as possible. I think that there were cross strips every few feet at the bottom of the 'pipe' to prevent clogging. The homes of the rich were serviced directly and they were taxed for this service.

Thanks, G-Man.

That is some nice stuff. I wonder why archaeologists find it odd that foreign things should be found there? These people didn't live in cocoons.

In general, what would be the point of conquering a land if the population were annihilated? There would be no one left to exploit its resources. Egyptian farmers supplied wheat to Rome. Looking at the auxiliaries another way, it helped to keep them out of mischief in their own land as they were used abroad. The Romans used the Batavians in Britain, and not in their homeland. I believe that at one point in time, the Romans used 'foreign' troopers to commence a battle, and only committed their legions if necessary. Towards the end of the Empire, most (95%?) were 'foreign' and not Italian.

My Lady Sophia of the North, please blow the whistle.

Constantinople. Go!

Even for kali4kneeya, that was terrible!

My Dear MPC: You do an excellent and valuable job researching and presenting information. You are an asset and a credit to this Forum. That said, if it ever comes to a point where you or I leave the Forum, just PM me and I will be gone. I have not closed my PM to you as you have yours to me. I only wanted to ask you if you wanted to be on my jokes list. Did Caesar Deserve to Die is a subjective question. When one presents a question, it need not be sourced. P.C. presented as much sourcing as you did. Because it was modern, does not make it fallacious. Cassius Dio's writings are questioned, yet they are ancient. Subjective means opinion. After much reading one comes to conclusions, i.e., Hannibal wasted his time and wasn't so great a captain. Does one have to source every claim for it to be valid? What if the source is wrong? I didn't tell you that your economics stank to the high heavens, no matter your charts, in the Gasoline Bet thread. To be rude, I hope that you don't teach eco. I've drunk much too much wine so I'll leave off. I really do like you. Tom

Doc was out shopping for an A/C.

Is there any limit to this expansion? Do you think that one could conduct Wall Street's business today and how? Once there were Gold Certificates issued by the Treasury or Fed (no longer remember) prior to the great Depression. They were in circulation. Didn't stop the Great Deflation. The Federal Reserve used (?) to balance check clearance balances with special Gold Certificates. Oddly enough, those districts losing Certificates would find themselves in economic trouble. ----------------------------------- Buy the bye, did you delete TWO posts of mine, as is your privilege?

Hot and cold flashes?

I don't think that they had 'elite' troopers in the sense of Seals or Special Forces, but they did have men who were adept at certain military tasks in an informal fashion.

You can have my share!

I am pretty sure that at least one of the sources does. Can't cite it because I read that stuff before most of the people on the Forum were born. Alzheimer's, perhaps.

Don't be so difficult; just a blunder anyone could make.

If Caesar were a criminal, why would monarchs call themselves kaisers, czars, czarina, or Caesars? I believe that the Turks initially adopted that title. Why not Brutus? Cassius? Why would a monarch want to have a criminal's name amongst his/her titles? At least one of them would have been smart enough to catch on. How about Sulla, as Kosmo suggests? ----------------------------------- Didn't Bibulus spend his time looking for omens in order to foil Caesar's reforms?

One may also get a horrorscope there!