FLavius Valerius Constantinus

Well, that statement is correct and alluding to about the fall of " The Western Empire." In reality, the Eastern Empire survived, thus the Roman Empire still existed. You do realize the Hellenic and Greek people stilled called themselves Roman right? "Byzantine" was invented by the German Hieronymus Wolff in 1562 AD. They called themselves this: Ῥωμανία Roman

I was just watching the history channel, there is a thing called the History of the Gun. I thought we needed an official thread on this. My personal favorite is the German 88mm and the German tiger. The 88mm and Tiger really wreaked havoc on Allied forces, and they made the Sherman look like little toy tanks. If the Germans could have captured the oil fields, the Tiger would have been used more effectively, luckily, Hitler meddles too much.

Boy, Berlusconi sure wish that recount gives him a few extra thousand votes. Say, doesn't having the new guy mean its harder to have better diplomatic relations with the US. I heard he was gonna pull the Italian troops out of Iraq immediately(that sure isn't gonna make it better).

he sorts voting tablets

I can understand non-Christians seeing God as vengeful, powerful, and warlike, which was a common theme in the Bible. But really, how many Romans would recognize God as the equivalent of Mars. Certainly not under Diocletianus. Aside- I 've really never seen the official image of Constantine. Can you tell me what Constantine really looked like and his ancestry(Italian?) was?

I find it amazing that no one else during Constantine's time tried to speak out against him or the matter of fact, a large military rebellion never even occured. All I know very well that Constantine was actively involved with the Church/community, so it proves he does faith (even if still questioned). When he saw the success of his promoted religion, he eventually and comfortably assumed himself as Christian too. All the conspiracy about him being still pagan, I mean really, you can't really exspect converts to change culture/tradition overnight. To Constantine, the Church was a valuable "institution" that actually aided in social affairs. By this time, the temples really had no effect and the Church replaced it gradually. By the way, Rameses the Great, what is your culture/background. I noticed a hint of Coptic beliefs, or was it Orthodox. Anyways, you said Constantine was Orthodox. That statement I have a hard time comprehending because papal relationships and Catholic history itself essentially recognizes Constantine as one of our own.

Imperative form . Forgot to think the sentence as a direct command.

Carpe is from carpo (kar-po). Diem is from dies (di-es). The think I find odd is to what form is carpe. I know it's in the singular ablative(might be wrong), but there is no construction for a present tense verb to be used all by itself. Only answer I have is if its a supine or an ablative absolute, but I rule those out because it's not even in supine form(carptus) and it's not and absolute since it's not in participial form. Can someone answer my question?

I was looking at your pictures, and I came by the pic. of Athena. I must say, I was profoundly scared by how ghost-like Athena looks.

Just wondering if anyone else has seen this movie, because I really love it. My teacher decided to show it in class before spring break, and I must say, Plautus is hugely a funny and uncanny Roman. I sure love his work. I found it interesting that Plautus would name the guy Hero. Is there any connection with the modern meaning?

Could it be that the Latin here was actually archaic? I mean, a Roman inscriber wouldn't be that bad at Latin.

As far as I know, the Romans lived in either towns or cities. Many towns were village-sized, so that might be the substitute for the village. But there are two types of towns in Roman terms. First you have the villa, which can mean countryhouse/farmhouse, but it also easily is used to refer to an "unfortified town" with the sole purpose of only living/working/economy. The second type is the "oppidum." which is the "fortified town," whose actual purpose is to serve as the safest place for common ppl to dwell against the enemy in hostile areas(eg. Camulogdunum), a lot like the medieval system, but really not at all.

Thanks Flavius - I suppose it could also refer to his personality ? The thing is, if it were to refer to his personality. eg., you want to say that he's lucky, the Romans would simply choose miserus or infelicis as the adjective instead of niger which most obvious even back then and til today, the Romans would use it to distinguish skin color. Take another example,eg. Constantinus Chlorus, --- the adj. Chlorus refers to his pale white skin. Niger would be used similarly in the same sense. Edit: I just thought of something. I was thinking of albus, which is easily used to describe a person's "beard"(maybe hair color too) like Frederick Barbossa's later on with his red beard. So niger could be describing the person's most notable facial feature.

Felix Natal! Spero natalicium magnum habebas. Translate: Happy Birthday! I hope you have a grand birthday party. (Latin might be off, owells )

In latin, the word for black is niger(masculine form, it's an adjectible word : niger, -a, -um). In contrast, the word for white in latin is albus, -a, -um. Note that they are contrasting words meant for each other. They either mean black/white or lucky/unlucky or unfavorable. So most likely, Pescennius Niger was either very dark skinned or unlucky or some other characteristic. Most likely, it refers the skin color, not really central African dark, but just really tannish dark. I deduct this because the only other meaning for cognomen would be 'unlucky' or ominous(not really good for superstitious Romans).

Sorry, I haven't really noticed thread. Just wondering if someone can summarize the progress of what we've learned about the Ligurians so far?

Europeans destroyed entire civilizations, denied peoples their right to their own future. You could say the same about muslims, they conquered Christian lands, but in many cases, they helped to improve civilization, like in northern Africa and holy land. They were still responsible for murder and pillage, but in much less decree than Europeans were. Europeans laid waste to China, India and other civilizations that were incredibly rich in culture and wealthy before the Europeans came. Undoubtetly Europeans brougth laws, institutions and technology, but with a high price. Africa is a hellhole because of European colonization, certainly no proper infrastructure was build by Europeans there, or at least anything that would be worth the civil wars and corruption. China was in a mess, and is partly today. Indian and Incan civilizations are all gone. That's quite a history of bloodshed. Dammit! I have to go, I'll write and answer later. In the modern sense, you really can't blame Europeans anymore since now they are the biggest promoters/benefactors of universal peace/mankind/civiliation/et alia. Rather, obviously, many, the leftists/extremists (out of resent/hatred) would refer to the American military-might as the biggest destroyer/invader/hamprance of society nowadays. In a lightful manner, you broadly would say Westernism is a destroyer of cultures( which in a way it has overpowered other cultures with 'pop culture' to the youth.)

It literally says Leader of the soldiers. Dux is nominative so it's the subject, militum is a third declension word, so the -um ending indicates it's a plural genitive so it translates of the soldiers

I'm really sick of this thread, for the love of...Ursus...I beg you to close it. I find it disgusting at how so much arrogance is strongly exhibited in this thread. I don't mind this discussion, but its turned into like an attack on each other's ego of who is prime overlord.

Nusquam or Nullibi There is also corus - north-west wind morus- black mulberry tree

Just wondering, with the map obsession so far, are you a cartographer Phil?