Gaius Octavius

By some fortuitous circumstance, someone (Votadini) posted to another Chinese thread. See post #5 by Onasander: http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5479&st=0

So, LW :wub: , what if one is a satanist ? If one follows your alleged morals and ethics, their is no culpability ? No responsibility -_- ?

To sever the Achilles tendon in the back of the lower leg. Subsequent to that wound, the Roman soldiers at Cannae, were said to have offered their throats to their enemy.

O! To live like a human being.

What's the difference, :mummy: ? The 's will do a number on you and bury you under one of those silly pyramids of yours. :nopity:

Your statement seems to imply that it was not a 'Jewish' thing. Can you say why the praetor did this?

The gladius would seem an ideal weapon for close-quarters stabbing actions with an enemy coming head on, so in a rout I'm guessing a slashing/sling/hacking weapon would be more appropriate? If one could slash, one could stab or hamstring - just as easily - and it would be more effective. The Roman soldiers at Cannae were mostly hamstrung when they were routed.

The Chinese name for Roman 'Western Syria' was Li-kan. Similar to the name of the village. I believe that the Chinese were fighting the Parthians and not the Huns. An-tun = M.A. Antoninus. Something about a Roman Prefect of Li-kan in(?)/to(?) Cochin China. An embassy of Constans II Pogonatus in 643AD. Earlier, in another thread on this subject, I inserted a link to a Fordham Univ. site. Can't find it. Maybe one of you can. Has lots of info about Roman (and 'Byzantine') and Chinese intercourse.

At the end of the American Civil War, the U.S.A. had the largest standing army and navy in the world. It did not take Canada or Mexico or eject the European colonialists out of the Western Hemisphere. At the starts of WWI and WWII, the U.S.A. had an inconsiderable army. In the end, the USA's entry proved to be the turning points of the wars. (This is not to denigrate the valiant and victorious efforts of the Allies.) Admiral Yamamoto(?), at the time of Pearl Harbor, said that he feared that the Japanese had awakened a sleeping giant. They did - to their regret. Field Marshall Rommel said that so long as the US had a foothold in Africa, the Axis didn't stand a chance of winning WWII. Never underestimate the power of the American nation and its people. The nations you mentioned, as presently constituted, could not conquer each other because in the end, after the A-bombing, one nation would have to occupy the other with foot soldiers. As far as that Iraq idiocy is concerned, it was provoked, started and continues because of greedy and exceptionally stupid people and their lackeys. Culturally, (for better or worse), the USA has more influence on other nations and peoples, than Rome had in its time. Looked at a TV recently? Used a computer? Had a Coke or Big Mac? Benefited from American outsourcing? ------------------------- As for you Tattle Tale :wub: , stay where you are. We don't need another 'bedroom events' Tell All. Who cares anyway? But eat your heart out - in Manchester!.

I don't believe that the Chinese were bent on creating a multi-national empire.

Depending on the time and circumstances, the enemy would have been damaged by slingers, archers and artillery prior to using the pila. The organized Romans could 'rotate' more easily than disorganized barbarians if they were pressed on a flank or even their rear or form a 'box' if pressed on all sides. A 'by the left flank' rotation would have been dangerous, as the Roman shields could not easily protect them from the onslaughts from their original front. Hopefully, a legionary would not be 'swinging' his gladius. His object would be to stab and twist into the upper body of the foe. The infantry would follow up as much as possible to prevent the enemy from regrouping and to get at the enemy camp (for the loot). The gladius was 'aimed' and personal, whereas other weapons were fired generally at the enemy. Most of the killing would have gone on during a rout. The gladius is credited with killing more Gauls than were killed in all their subsequent wars until the machine gun of WWI.

" **location censured to protect my chances** " = New-speak or twaddle? "... but I'm brain dead"? No need to state the obvious. P.S. Lots of luck.

White Star? That is a shipping line. Does the word 'Titanic' mean anything to you?

You didn't see the fore and aft rocket launchers. I am sure that I can drive so much better than you. I keep a stick and a spoon, in the chariot, gory paratrooper.

Forgot. Your broker ain't your pal.

Your incentives are Ovaria and Fallopia. Check my blog.

Quite, what if it was in effect a "war grave" and other people were cremated not inhumated? Right on! Personally, I think that it was a site for cluster fornication at the solstices and equinoxes.

Iupiter, please help me! Corbridge is in the U.K. Pertinax :notworthy: lives in Brigantia - which is in the U.K. His Greekship :notworthy: and his Domina were there also. He had to swim across. Get a map, you :mummy:

:mummy: :bash:

Yeah, sure, and then you'll pass it on Scotland. You'll get your church as long as I get half the loot from the turkeys. Can you cure the SFB syndrome?

I just knew that you would ask. They are both 'edicts'. Firman from the Turkish sultan. Ukase from the Russian Tzar.

350 skulls are enough to generalize?

I am unanimously against turning wine into water! Water into beer is cool! I'd like to see the charlatan walk on water - starting in mid-Atlantic.

The whole lot of 'em should take lithium pills and long naps.

'White Horse'? Ain't that a Scotch?