Gaius Paulinus Maximus

I'll drink to that !! Cheers!!

Didn't even notice your absence, can't say that you've been missed .................. Only joking Cecil! Take care of yourself and hurry back soon.

Most of the sources that I've looked at state that at it's peak the Roman road system spanned approx. 50,000 miles ( 80,000km). I'm just in the proccess of reading "Five Denarii" myself and your right it is fantastic. There's quiet an interesting piece on Roman roads here on UNRV written I'm guessing by PP. http://www.unrv.com/culture/roman-roads.php

There you go Asclepiades. That's a beautiful picture, I'll try and be back with a name for it soon .

I'm pretty sure that there was some form of travel agents in ancient Rome, there will have been kind of merchant who specialized in arranging travel to different parts of the empire and he would of course charge a fee for this service, so I suppose you could call him a travel agent. There were shipping associations that had offices in all the major ports of the Empire and you could arrange travel with these, they could even arrange to have your money changed/transferred when you arrived at your destination, to save you the risk of carrying all your money with you on what was probably a long and risky journey.

I've driven through Melrose lots of times and I never knew that Trimontium existed at all, thanks for bringing it to our attention, Caldrail. I'll definitely be stopping off the next time I'm in the area. The Timontium website is pretty good, it gives all sorts of information on the history of the sites on walks and activities available. Take a look. http://www.trimontium.freeserve.co.uk/

Don't apologize Asclepiades, the harder the picture, the better the game. Indeed it is a beautiful bridge that you posted and I did enjoy searching for it, but I'd have enjoyed it more if I'd been able to find the bloody thing!! Anyway who's up next? Miguel??....... Klingan?? EDIT: BTW Asclepiades, thats a interesting name you have, why don't you tell us a bit more about it by going to this thread on screen names. http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5180&st=0

The bid to get the Antonine Wall recognized as a World Heritage site has been on going since 2003 and the final decision isn't going to be made until around 2010!

Nick Tosches, courtesy of Wiki....... Nick Tosches (born 1949) is an American writer, music journalist, novelist, biographer and poet. After different jobs, he started writing with music magazines, including Creem and Fusion. His first book, Hellfire, published in 1982, a biography of Jerry Lee Lewis established him as a significant writer on the music scene. His subsequent biographies have covered the lives of Dean Martin, Michele Sindona, Sonny Liston, Emmett Miller (one of the last minstrel singers), and Arnold Rothstein (the man who allegedly fixed the 1919 World Series and partially inspired the character Hyman Roth in The Godfather Part II). He has also published a collection of poetry, Chaldea, and the novels: Cut Numbers, Trinities and In the Hand of Dante. The latter is considered, by the author himself, to be his finest work. He has been published in Vanity Fair and Esquire. His writings have been collected in The Nick Tosches Reader. He is also a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Sounds like a pretty decent bloke!

I've told the producer about freedman's caps and she like the idea of 'Santa's hat without the fur trim, and in lots of jolly colours...' (my description) They needed something to toss in the baddies' faces to distract them; that's why they introduced coloured flour. I suggested they hurl pistachio nuts or hot spiced wine instead. Any other suggestions welcome! Flavia How about otter's nose's or wolf's nipple chips!

The Roman General Gaius Paulinus Maximus (gladiator!! How dare you!!!) pops up from the impulvium wearing tight white swimming trunks and a pair of shades, he spots an ancient floatation device similar to the modern day Li-Lo, bobbing along in the impulvium and leaps on top of it. "Is that Club Tropicana I can hear ? " he mumbles. "slave bring me a drink " he demands "and make sure it's got a cherry on a stick and a pink papyrus umbrella on the side! I can feel a pool party coming on!!!!"

The Roman historian Tacitus, in his book chronicling the life of his father-in-law, Agricola, was describing how the Romans know that Britain (which Agricola was commander of) was an Island. He talks of how a Roman ship circumnavigated Britain, and discovered the Orkney Islands. He says the ship's crew even sighted Thule (The Shetland Isles), but their orders were not to go there and explore, as winter was at hand. If they really did circumnavigate Britain then they must have surely seen the Western Isles as well, so there's every chance that the Romans could have set foot on the Hebrides long before the 4th century.

Hehe excellent work Nephele, how very fitting. Trust you to kick a man when he's down

I think she's a judge or ex judge who has a show on tv a bit along the lines of Jerry Springer, Rikki Lake etc...... Taken from Wikipedia....... What do you reckon Pertinax...... Is this the sort of thing you watch???

Maximus strides/staggers/wobbles over to klingan and puts a firm arm around his shoulder....." Welcome back dear boy! I see you've gone up in the world, you're looking much......errrmmm.... drier! Than the last time I saw you." Maximus thrusts an over flowing goblet into Klingans hand accidentally spilling some of it's contents down his pristine new toga "Drink friend! Drink and be merry! Come Klingan let me introduce you to a couple of lovely ladies over by the impulvium" Klingan follows with a look of dread on his face "Oh dear gods, not again!!"

Salve Skiman. Yes definitely, my Latin is pretty much non existent so every little helps.

"Ouch!!" Are you walking like John Wayne at the moment??

Favorite descriptions so far............. Pertinax Famous people like you - Judge Judy??? MPC - You're also pretty grumpy!!

Your Score: Atlas 100% Extroversion, 53% Intuition, 0% Emotiveness, 28% Perceptiveness You totally rock. Even if you don't like Ayn Rand, you're the kind of person she wrote about. You're one of the prime movers. You can think on your feet in a way the imposter Icarus type can only dream of, you can manage people and put them to their best uses, and you don't sit on the sidelines either. You have big ideas, and you can see them all through to fruition. You have a boundless supply of creative energy, and you use it all. On the downside, you can feel threatened by other people who have ideas, particularly if they're critical of your methods. Your immediate reaction will usually be to discredit them as mush-headed or bleeding-hearts, but they can often be right. You can also be a little egocentric. If people like you could learn to be less immediately reactionary, and listen to the reasons their critics think what they do, the world might be a better place (the ability to do this is the kind of thing that sets Warren Buffett and Bill Gates apart from the Enron executives, for example). It's true that the world functions because of people like you, but it is important to remember that you are a foundation and catalyst, and that's all. As a manager, you need your engineers and accountants, as an engineer, you need scientists. As a politician, you need advisors. The better of the Atlas types remember this, and by doing this they're more likely to recieve gratitude for their accomplishments. Failure to recognize the contributions of your associates can be your undoing (there are people around you who are highly skilled, and they will be perfectly happy to find someone else to work with if they feel they aren't being treated fairly). Famous People like you (if you're not evil): Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, FDR, Warren Buffett, JFK Famous People like you (if you are evil): The Enron Executives, Nixon You don't need to steer clear of any of the personality types -- you have ways of dealing with all of them. Seek out: Daedalus, The Oracle, Prometheus

I agree, the idea of teaching Rhetoric is all well and good but just how far in life is Rhetoric going to get you as oppose to the more important subjects. I think it should be an option available to students but should not be mandatory, like MPC says, there's more important and beneficial things to be taught in the classroom in the limited time that's available.

A warm welcome to UNRV Skiman. I'm sure this site will be a great source information to help you along on your course, and don't be afraid to contribute to any thread, we don't bite !.... Well not all of us anyway!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Divi Filius! Have a great day and don't get too drunk......................Okay , go on then!

I'm actually really warming to the second series, I thought it was disappointing to begin with but it's got better as it's gone along, I thought the last episode with the battle of Philippi and the death of Cicero was really good and I'm now looking forward to the remaining episode's. I've also really enjoyed the performance's of James Purefoy as Marc Antony and David Bamber as Cicero, they've stepped up to the mantle and filled the void left by Ciaran Hinds.

Didn't Stilicho take refuge in the Church of Ravenna after it had become clear that the Emperor Honorius wanted him dead, he stayed safe in the sanctuary of the church until he was tricked into stepping over the holy threshold on the promise that his life would be spared but as soon as he stepped over, a warrant for his instant execution was produced and he was mercilessly murdered there and then.