Gaius Octavius

El Bumpo!

Why?

Maybe you can see The Colosseum with this: http://by122fd.bay122.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-...f7615a885ff8634 Sorry, there is some sort of an error above and I don't know how to delete the whole message. Try Google. It is supposed to be something new.

I wonder what the 'plate tectonics' people have to say about these recent discoveries? The Alps, the Himalayas, and Hawaii are rising. The Netherlands, California, and Venice are sinking (receding). Some Pacific nations will soon be sand bars. Pangaea continuing its magic? Is it not possible that these astrological alignments are mere accident? Could they have been so aligned thousands of years ago and also today? This is not meant to denigrate any people, rather more to say that have other explanations been investigated? Some, perhaps crack pots, claim that the Egyptian pyramids have some sort of an alignment with the North Star. This alignment changes daily and soon the North Star won't be such.

The Emperor Pertinax was the son of a wool-monger. Agrippa was what he was. If, of 'low birth', more credit to him.

La Donna Sophia :wub: has more than surpassed all expectations! Have had complaints from the electric company as all we use is the computer - when not otherwise occupied - and the victrola. Even the clocks are off. Candles in good supply. -_- Eat your hearts out, Sophia & Tomasso :wub: &

That is interesting. It leads me to this question: Weren't the 'Byzantines' using Roman notation?

Yup! Would you expect less of your tormentor?

Way

Speaking of "1/2" or "Pi", how did the Romans, etc., notate such fractions?

Via the crusaders too - When they weren't haplessly slaughtering arab mathematicians that is. The 'concept' or the 'notation' and usage? It would seem certain that Greeks and Romans and Egyptians knew that two less two equalled 'zero' or nothing.

Another site more in tune with the Forum: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ Ancient books in English, Latin and Greek.

DoL, I have no idea.

In memory of Sybil Mohly-Nagy. http://www.crystalinks.com/ziggurat.html

My cloudy memory recalls a more tepee like free standing house also.

:mummy: you :mummy:

For pictures and movie see: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17238153/

Might be worth a look-see: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17238153/ Slide show & movies. Pictures of wooden statues reported by P.P. earlier. There is quite a bit of stuff here if you click around. A Semetic snake spell. Ancient Semetic and modern Hebrew words

Maladict, you are a Benedict! Thanks.

I think that she loved him from the start. But, then you Ladies know more about such matters. Darcy is my hero.

MPC, my last comment was with regard to Cicero. In re your last comment, was Caesar one of those capable governors? (In your opinion, of course.)

Cara Donna Sophia: :wub: All terms and conditions ACCEPTED. Plane tickets on your computer. Don Tomasso

Nice work MPC & AD. Now, I wish that I had paid some attention to calculus. Completely off topic, and from MPC's link above: "In other words, it is impossible to pigeonhole ancient Greek thought or, for that matter, the intellectual culture of any civilization. People like to simplify forces that shape history, and this can lead to conceptually crude, underdeveloped ideas -- such as that the Victorians were sexually repressed."

There is a place in Italy, perhaps in Calabria, where there are cone shaped dwellings. I believe that I have seen them on Italian stamps of half a century ago and elsewhere. Does anyone know anything about this?

How do you reach this conclusion? From the excerpt you quoted, the Senate was prepared to deny to Caesar the Gallic provinces. If anything had "fallen to a low estate", it was Cicero, not the Senate. Then why did the Senate comply with his wishes? In any case, Cicero's argument for continuing Caesar's tenure doesn't have any more bearing on the fall of the Republic than any other debate on provincial rule. Had the senate gone the opposite way, there was still nothing preventing Caesar from assembling his legions and attacking Rome. The Rule of Law. Principle. One can't pick and chose when to apply principles. Or, is this a case of situational ethics?