ASCLEPIADES

This bust is commonly believed to be a portrait of Flavius Josephus.

Felicem Natalem Dies, GM!

BTW, 8 members of the first generation of Decemviri (CCCIII AUC / 451 BC) are currently absent from the Consular list at the Covernment section of UNRV (only the consuls for that year and the second generation are listed); Titus Veturius Crassus Cicurinus Gaius Iulius Iullus Aulus Manlius Vulso Servius Sulpicius Camerinus Cornutus Publius Sestius Capito Vaticanus Publius Curiatius Fistus Trigeminus Titus Romilius Rocus Vaticanus Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis

Salve, Lady N! For the Roman Republican period (ie, from CCXLV AUC / 509 BC to DCCXXIII AUC / 31 BC) I have been able to identify the names of 719 consuls, 130 consular tribunes and 19 decemviri. If all of them are included in the Brougthon's list, then you are still going for a little more than two thousand non-consular magistracies. For example, the Cornelia gens had 64 consuls, 13 consular tribunes and 1 decemvir during the aforementioned period, presumably included among the 185 magistrates listed by Brougthon.

For example:

But of course! Well... the "people of Rome" under his command. Here comes Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Caesar, Ch. LVII, sec. I: "However, the Romans gave way before the good fortune of the man and accepted the bit, and regarding the monarchy as a respite from the evils of the civil wars, they appointed him dictator for life. This was confessedly a tyranny, since the monarchy, besides the element of irresponsibility, now took on that of permanence."

Haemochromatosis?

Salve, Amici! When C. Suetonius lists the evidence of Caesar's power abuse (abusus dominatione ) on Ch. LXXVI sec. I of his Divus Iulius, he specifically states that the Dictator accepted the title Imperator as part of his name (insuper praenomen Imperatoris); ie, for him (and presumably for his family), the use of the title (and the triumphal condition) was going to be permanent, the same as the consulship (continuum consulatum) and the dictatorship (perpetuam dictaturam ): "Non enim honores modo nimios recepit: continuum consulatum, perpetuam dictaturam praefecturamque morum, insuper praenomen Imperatoris, cognomen Patris patriae, statuam inter reges, suggestum in orchestra;" "For not only did he accept excessive honours, such as an uninterrupted consulship, the dictatorship for life, and the censorship of public morals, as well as the forename Imperator, the surname of Father of his Country, a statue among those of the kings, and a raised couch in the orchestra;"

Wilson's disease?

Are all y'all working on the above or am I being neglected? You can be never neglected, GO.

Merely a nova I'm afraid. The star coughs and throws off waste material from the surface, resulting in a bright flare. Such things are rare enough, but supernova (The complete destruction of a star) is incredibly rare - I did read of one expert who reckoned there's been three during the life of our galaxy. In any case, an observable supernova had better be a long way off because the explosion has dire consequences for nearby star systems. So, are you saying that the Crab Nebula and such others are only the results of novae and not supernovae? I have to confess I haven't read any up-to-date stuff on astronomy for a while, so this interests me, Caldrail. From my reading years ago I always thought the main nebulae in our galaxy and others were the results of supernovae. Has research proved otherwise now? And I had heard that Betelgeuze (?sp) in Orion was going to be the next big supernova. Have you any up-to-date info on this? It's an unstable red giant, but will it be a mere nova when it goes, or a big blast? Salve, Amici! This official list from the IAU ( International Astronomical Union) shows more than four thousand supernovae http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/Supernovae.html"" target="_blank">Sequitur.

Salve, JR! You should better check what the Jews think about that, for example here or here (this last domain has recently expired, but it's interesting anyway), or in the Jewish Encyclopaedia.

Your memory serves well, but this word was not restricted to such use. Check out this related thread, especially my two posts (#16 and #19).

Now, the question would be if we qualify as "general population".

For the period before the Lex Licina, I found another 3 consular Gentes; Aternia, Romilia and Tarpeia.

Salve, Amici! BTW, the word Bulimia (bous "ox" plus limos "hunger") is not attested in its modern clinical sense English before 1976. It appears like my namesake was a real pioneer.

Salve, GO! It's simply the morphological evolution of the Latin word into modern English, via French empereur.. In Latin, both the commander's and the Emperor's title were written the same, Imperator.

Lucky for us that he got out!

In fact, before the Lex Licinia of CCCLXXXVII AUC (367 BC) you find something like sixty nomina among consular and consular rank magistrates' list, most of them plebeian by Late Republican standards.

Drusus?

Salve. amici! It was a deliberate misconception by the Augustean propaganda to made him the divine royal founder of the Imperial tradition, as he was the first officially deified Roman leader and the key to Augustus' and later emperor's cult. Octavius use it as a cognomen after his adoption, and after the demise of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, later emperors add it ot their names to legitimate their claims. After all, Caesar was the eponymous beginner of C Suetonius' De vita XII Caesarum. The cognomen eventually became an Imperial title, and during the Tetrarchy it even got a curricular status as the junior imperial position subordinated to the Augustus. The name and its alternative spellings in several languages (Kaiser, Tsar, Czar) became identified with Monarchy and Autocracy. In fact, Constantinople was referred to by East and South Slavic languages (including Russian) as Tsarigrad or Carigrad.

Salve, GO! Of course you're right.

Salve, amici! If nobody minds, I (Ascleapiades) am going to quote indirectly Asclepiades of Prusa, via Aulus Cornelius Celsus (De Medicina, Libri I, Ch. III, sec. XVII); I think this may very well be the first known description of a nowadays not so rare disease: "But as I have mentioned a vomit and a purge among thinning measures, there are some things to be said in particular concerning them. I note that a vomit was rejected by Asclepiades in the book written by him, entitled De tuenda sanitate; I do not blame him for being disquieted with the custom of those, who by ejecting every day achieve a capacity for gormandizing. He has even gone somewhat further; for from the same volume he has expelled likewise purgings; which indeed are pernicious when procured by too powerful medicaments. Such measures, however, are not to be dispensed with entirely, because regard for different constitutions and times can make them necessary, provided that they are employed in moderation and only when needed. Hence Asclepiades has himself allowed that what is already corrupted ought to be expelled: so this kind of treatment is not wholly to be condemned." The recognition and description of this disease will have to wait until the late XIXth century.

Perge?

Salve, GM! Yessir, you're right. Your turn.