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Point taken; by any Classical Era measure or standard. Certainly no one of them was a post-Popperian researcher.

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That is only logical; paradoxically or not, for their own nature most religions tend not to be tolerant with the other faiths, as each one of them considers itself as the sole truth, not just "one truth" among many. For the same reason, arguably most defenders of religious freedom ever have been at least agnostics. Nope; in fact, depending on your specific definition for the former, both terms would be almost surely mutually exclusive.

This was evidently an irregular communication from irregular findings; nothing else can objectively be said on the purported findings themselves until they are regularly and properly analyzed. BTW, even if Herodotus' 50K story might well have been a bit unreliable from the beginning, the mere obvious fact that Darius didn't die there proves absolutely nothing in either way.

Maybe I had something to say Even extreme disagreeing can't be mistaken for personal affront . It seems that on the ongoing risk for Venice we also agree

Hi From your posts of November 29, I got the impression that you have effectively returned. Being that the case, welcome back. If that is not the case, I expect to see you soon here.

Hardly could such image be any more misleading on either Sallust or Marxism. Sallust was one of the most influential historians ever, but as most (if not all) historians, he had his owm agenda; as you noted, his good understanding of the mood of the day was openly biased in favor of the autocracy that overcame the Republic. Actually, the vision of the purported farmer class pauperization has considerably changed in recent years; for one, the high demand of that same slave labor seems to be in obvious contradiction with such thesis. In any case, the Republic was destroyed by the professional army, not by the yeomen. Caesar, the Gracchi and even the novus homo Marius were evidently notable members of that same corrupt senatorial aristocracy, the same as their respective most prominent allies. Strictly speaking, all of them fought within the aristocracy; their common goal was clearly the control of such aristocracy, not its destruction; even Augustus was in the same case.

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Antonius was defeated at Mutina basically because:- The best half of his present army deserted to the other side. - All his other allies were still too far away. The defeat was hardly definitive and Antonius had still a good chance of winning the war, when the cleaver duplicity of Octavius changed the whole scenario, opening the way for the triumvirate. The best interest of Caesar

Denial + nihilism + insults + arguments ad hominem = not a very strong case . The rules of evidence are not the strong point here (for that, even Google may help) . But there's no need to ignore the bias any more; no amount of evidence will ever be enough when the conclusion is known in advance by your own pocket . BTW, no need to be disturbed; if anyone is ever forced to face his own share of global responsibility, it would not be by poor me , but by his local government... Now, regarding the following... Physician, heal thyself! Only actually annoying when you stray off topic into subjects you only apparently know by google ... sorry, but I was not talking to you (but if it fits you, go ahead).

3mm x 100yr = 6 inches. That indicates a 4 fold slowdown of supposed 24inch per century rate of rise, which "proves" rising CO2 levels are a benefit. Frankly, all of this is nonsense. Sorry, my bad ; the article posted by Klingan makes perfect sense, as it mentions "24 cm.", not "24 inches", as I wrongly wrote above.(BTW, 3mm/year x 100yr = 11.81 inches/century). Nope; what bother us is that the Adriatric, as any other sea, is rising, as it is clearly explained in that same Croatian article.(What you try to prove with your posted graphic I simply can't understand, as it shows seasonal variations, not annual net increases)

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More or less, something like: "Venice is once again under water. Almost half of the urban area is flooded... ...the flood was created by a combination of heavy rain, wind and tides. At the Ducal Palace ... the water sometimes rose as high as half a meter... ... the sea level is already more than 24 inches higher than 100 years ago and by now it climbs by an average of three millimeters per year."

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I vote for Neverland too.

Usus autem sum, ne in aliquo fallam carissimam mihi familiaritatem tuam, praecipue libris ex bibliotheca Ulpia, aetate mea thermis Diocletianis, et item ex domo Tiberiana, usus etiam [ex] regestis scribarum porticus porphyreticae, actis etiam senatus ac populi. 2 et quoniam me ad colligenda talis viri gesta ephemeris Turduli Gallicani plurimum invit, viri honestissimi ac sincerissimi, beneficium amici senis tacere non debui. 3 Cn. Pompeium, tribus fulgentem triumphis belli piratici, belli Sertoriani, belli Mithridatici multarumque rerum gestarum maiestate sublimem, quis tandem nosset, nisi eum Marcus Tullius et Titus Livius in litteras rettulissent? 4 Publ<i>um Scipionem Afric<an>um, immo Scipiones omnes, seu Lucios seu Nasicas, nonne tenebrae possiderent ac tegerent, nisi commendatores eorum historici nobiles atque ignobiles extitissent? 5 longum est omnia persequi, quae ad exemplum huiusce modi etiam nobis tacentibus usurpanda sunt. 6 illud tantum contestatum volo me et rem scripsisse, quam, si quis voluerit, honestius eloquio celsiore demonstret, et mihi quidem id animi fuit, 6 <ut> non Sallustios, Livios, Tacito<s>, Trogos atque omnes disertissimos imitarer viros in vita principum et temporibus disserendis, sed Marium Maximum, Suetonium Tranquillum, Fabium Marcellinum, Gargilium Martialem, Iulium Capitolinum, Aelium Lampridium ceterosque, qui haec et talia non tam diserte quam vere memoriae tradiderunt. 8 sum enim unus ex curiosis, quod infi[ni]t<i>as ire non possum, ince<n>dentibus vobis, qui, cum multa sciatis, scire multo plura cupitis. 9 et ne diutius ea, quae ad meum consilium pertinent, loquar, magnum et praeclarum principem et qualem historia nostra non novit, arripiam.

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