Gaius Octavius

Pastrami, silly. I don't smoke, either. I buy mine at the deli. -- Nephele :mummy:, nah, just being me. Smoke what? Weeds? A Pastrami? Nah, smoke a herring!

Just regurgitating what a guide told me. Note how the roadway is arched. If the street were flooded, the debris and water would fly up onto the 'sidewalks'. Not quite the object of the exercise. It would hinder speeding and racing and allow for drainage though. But just a guess, and surely could be wrong.

Can you just picture Gaius having lupin lasagna? My life! If one doesn't have rice with the beans, it is not a complete protein.

"dfadydoniawsneav". Sounds Welch to me.

You womens are insatiable! Is that all you have on your so called minds? Take a break; smoke a pipe or a cigar or better still write an essay.

Yes, he was a Protestant who converted to Roman Catholicism and then returned to Protestantism before (as?) he wrote his tome. His attitude was anti- R.C., and not so much anti-Christianity.

If my faulty memory serves, I recall seeing a Brit program where they showed that an arrow would easily go through chain mail or armour.? Crassus in Parthia?

I thought that those 'stepping stones' were there to prevent carriages and horse riders from racing down the vias.?

I really do hate to inject myself into this most important thread, but, as you should know, I am a Britophile. It is rumored in the Colonies that this may be a 'cunning plan' on the part of My Lord Melchett :notworthy: , to put to the stake any of you Brits who don't supply an essay to THE CONTEST.

Who's going to be Nealy Dunne?

Would this be the case in a large city like Rome?

:wub: Anella: Well, it seems that the obligatory dig will shadow me the rest of my life. What was wrong with Dinty? Hah!

I was thinking more in terms of throwing an old pot away or wood, leather, marble chips, etc. Stuff like that.

:wub: I'll handle the Dinty Moore, Prop. Dinty Moore's Back Room.

As the Witching Hour draws near, The god-Consul wishes to make it clear, That those who do not enter an essay, Will have Hades to pay. G.O.,Cos.

What, and how did the Romans collect and dispose of refuse from their streets and buildings?

Perhaps the Romans built their village there to take advantage of the lucre to be obtained from pilgrims. But the monument lasted for 3,000 years from building to Romans?

Caldrail may have some reason on his side in the above post. But: A 'born' autocrat? Wasn't his co-consul (Bibulus?) always looking for omens rather than doing some work (another reason why the Republic had to go)? It seems to me that if the institutions of the Republic were working, there might not have arisen a Caesar. Or a need for a Caesar. "Given that the republic was becoming unable to contain individual initiative, then after the civil wars it was almost certain that someone would rise to become dictator/emperor/monarch - whatever title you want to call it. Autocratic rule was unpopular with senior romans. It meant they couldn't share in power for one thing. So unless the individual rising to the fore was powerful enough and popular enough, then the civil wars would have continued, or some very bloody intrigue at the very least. For that reason, I agree that the republic was doomed by its own failure, and sooner or later autocratic rule was going to replace the roman oligarchy. As later history shows, a lesser man simply led to another power struggle and continued instability."-----Caldrail.

Snowing here in the Heart of America.

Five more days left to go before March 15th! If P.P. isn't floodeed with essays, the god-Coonsul will declare open season on the slackers!

Seems like a bit of rhetoric. I praise him while I damn him.

I thought that legionaries had at least one meat meal a day.

Try using an 'i' instead.