FLavius Valerius Constantinus

I would call it a Scipio argument. Just curious, but Cato, what would you specifically designate yourself in terms of Roman politics. Were there any sub-groups in the Republican side that you could identify with?

'What is this? I leave for a little bit, come back and the world's in havoc!' College? I suppose this is what I get for not double checking my translations. Looking back, oops, turns out the verb should have been a present passive. 'semper in mea corde', cor is neuter so maybe it should be meo Deus aleas non iacit- you're absolutely right, yet the Romans had a specific name for game dice which they did have and it was called tesserae, so maybe that can be used in place of alea Deus me ducit, I believe the person was looking for an active future tense of duco. Nevermind rego, I have no idea what got into me. But if you use voluntas, 'Dei voluntas me ducet'. God's will shall lead me.

Yikes, what an ethical problem for you even though it might not be to many others. The kind of girl you describe, well there are many out there that I know of. Yet somehow, I always do manage to make contact and break their silent barrier, because I'm really talkative and stupid, which humors them into me being their new friend. I don't know how I do it, but I do. Sextus, you don't really need to take this situation that hard, I mean its bound to happen in life.

Link to article Archaeologists excavating two American Indian burial sites in downtown Miami say they have found hundreds of remains piled in limestone fissures, some of them stacked in stone burial boxes. The remains are at least five centuries old and likely are the ancestors of the Tequesta tribe that met explorer Juan Ponce de Leon in 1513 when he claimed the land for Spain, archaeologists said. "The idea of a crypt-like structure, that's never been observed anywhere in South Florida before," said Robert Carr, director of the Archaeological and Historical Conservancy. Bone piles were discovered in at least five fissures on the former site of railroad magnate Henry Flagler's 19th-century Royal Palm Hotel, Carr said Thursday. The site is near a burial mound that was destroyed more than 100 years ago...

I'm not particularly knowledgeable on the Roman time/day. I would assume that they went in concordance with the vernal equinox and summer solstice.Winter the days are longer, so the night was early and 5:00 seems a reasonale time to begin the watch. Everything started at night, I doubt the Romans even bothered with trying to find out the specific time.

Logically, the Roman Legions would observe local time because as with the time zones, night and day differ. It really mattered when night began where they were stationed and when morning began.

Thinking about Romulus and Remus, how were twins treated in Roman society specifically? Who was where in the inheritance? Who would be on the politician(for patricians) and who would be forced to join the army. Such many things I want to ask...

Well maybe one question, what happens when one member die. Assuming they would try to elect another person to fill the role, how will they choose wisely according to their own digression. But what if the candidates openly use violence on each other to gain the spot, another civil war and the remaning two members of the triumvirate might have to take sides. But looking on the past, history tells us there will always be a person out for self glory/rule. So if we look at the moral experience of society, it's just not possible.

Actually Flavius, you aren;t that far off at all. You are right about all of those facts, just you omitted the extra crucial info... (not your fault). The Huns, were a key problem to the Goths coming into Roman lands, but they appeared around the Black Sea area in the early 4th century, my question though is why did they come in middle to late 3rd century? But you are very correct about the way the Goths were treated by Romans of all social classes, in fact during the age of Valens, the term 'Goths' had become a degragatory term and associated with slaves and the worst of the worst. If you look here I go into a lot of detail on this event. Page 6 of this Topic The Goths that were upset during Theodosius' reign because Alaric felt they were used as cannon fodder during the battle of the Frigidus River in 394AD. The major reason though for the revolt was because Alaric felt he deserved to be rewarded with a high command/position within the Roman Government and Military but was not given it and so led the revolt against Rome. Now while this was a bad thing, he was kept in check by his old friend and faithful Roman to the Theodosius dynasty Stilicho who was a Vandal. After defeating Alaric a handful of times, but allowing Alaric to escape, (it's debatable if he really LET him get away or if it was just chance), but the Roman aristocracy and the Emperor Honorius felt him to be a traitor and not to be trusted and he along with other members of the Imperial Family had him executed. This, followed by a mass attack on Barbarian troops throughout the West caused many, (who were loyal to Rome), turn to Alaric since they had no where else to go. Alaric is said to have recieved 30,000 men because of this and used those to sack Rome in 410. My question though is what caused the Goths to initally involve themselves in Rome. Was it for simply conquest and wealth? A search for a new home? Being driven from thier old lands? A climate change? This is the question I pose. Hmm, I hate it when documentaries never go deeply into the motives of such characcters. But thanks for telling this, I never knew about that segment. If what you say about Alaric is true, then I believe the Gothic incursion into Italia was really by one man, Alaric. As a common theme, why not follow someone who you admire and guarantee you a chance of booty. So if I had an answer, I'd stick with the old fashion glory/wealth even though it might be a combination of other attributes.

Perhaps the Huns were the problems. My reason for saying that is because a History Channel documentary I watched on Barbarians: The Goths which stated one good reason was the Hunnic brutal invasion. Also, when the Goths were allowed into Roman Empire, the Roman natives didn't take well with the Gothic prescence. So there you've got cultural discrimination which the Goths must have felt estranged. Now when the Goths were incorporated into the army, they were also discriminated, example during one battle, 10,000 Goths died fighting for Rome as cannon fodder and it was in that battle whom was Alaric. Yet my facts may be stupendously wrong since I might be mixing up events far off.

I think I've mentioned that I wanted to meet Constantine and Caligula somewhere before. Other people that I want to meet would be probably the beautiful women of Rome. I want to meet Constantine because I want to ask him what Christianity truly meant to him and how he would envision the Church/world today. I'd like to meet Caligula himself and find out Caligula's true personality, whether he was, well you know. And oh yes, Ulpius Traianus!

Some 3.5 million of today's Ashkenazi Jews

There's no physical evidence that the family who gave the Donner Party its name had anything to do with the cannibalism the ill-fated pioneers have been associated with for a century and a half, two scientists said Thursday. Cannibalism has been documented at the Sierra Nevada site where most of the Donner Party's 81 members were trapped during the brutal winter of 1846-47, but 21 people, including all the members of the George and Jacob Donner families, were stuck six miles away because a broken axle had delayed them. No cooked human bones were found among the thousands of fragments of animal bones at that Alder Creek site, suggesting Donner family members did not resort to cannibalism, the archaeologists said at a conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology in Sacramento, Calif.... via Yahoo News

You do mean me since I did that translation, not Favonius right? as for Mar: Well I would like to point out I may be wrong. God doesn't play dice. --->Deus tesseram non fecit. Deus me reget. ---> God will 'lead' me. ( I used lead instead of guide, still the same meaning really)

Sorry, I don't believe there's an actual word for get other than potior which means get possesion of so I'll replace it with 'impedes' instead. The magic is still within us when life impedes the way. Magia tamen est intra nos quando vitam viam impedit. Note: I could be wrong.

Well I don't really like Howard Stern because he lets his own daughter get nude in public shows or in movies. Now I would never let my children do that. This guy is a walking immorality.

Reminder: I fret at translating for tattoos knowing that I might be wrong and just have """" someone's skin. Aeternaliter in meo corde. or Semper in meo corde. Semper in meo animo. or Aeternaliter in meo animo. Note animo means mind/spirit. But then the word also comes to symbolize many things such as in 'heart', intellect, etc. Semper means always, so it can really mean the same as forever. If I were you I wouldn't trust me, who knows, I might very well be wrong. Just wait until someone better comes by and see what they have to say.

LINK JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - A South African anthropologist said Thursday his research into the death nearly 2 million years ago of an ape-man shows human ancestors were hunted by birds. "These types of discoveries give us real insight into the past lives of these human ancestors, the world they lived in and the things they feared," Lee Berger, a paleo-anthropologist at Johannesburg's University of Witwatersrand, said as he presented his conclusions about a mystery that has been debated since the remains of the possible human ancestor known as the Taung child were discovered in 1924. The Taung child's discovery led to the search for human origins in Africa, instead of in Asia or Europe as once theorized. Researchers regard the fossil of the ape-man, or australopethicus africanus, as evidence of the "missing link" in human evolution. Researchers had speculated the Taung child was killed by a leopard or saber-toothed feline. But 10 years ago, Berger and fellow researcher Ron Clarke submitted the theory the hunter was a large predatory bird, based on the fact most of the other fossils found at the same site were small monkeys that showed signs of having been killed by a predatory bird. Berger and Clarke had until now been unable to show damage on the child's skull that could have been done by a bird. Five months ago, Berger read an Ohio State University study of the hunting abilities of modern eagles in West Africa believed similar to predatory birds of the Taung child's era. The Ohio State study determined that eagles would swoop down, pierce monkey skulls with their thumb-like back talons, then hover while their prey died before returning to tear at the skull. Examination of thousands of monkey remains produced a pattern of damage done by birds, including holes and ragged cuts in the shallow bones behind the eye sockets. Berger went back to the Taung skull, and found traces of the ragged cuts behind the eye sockets. He said none of the researchers who had for decades been debating how the child died had noticed the eye socket damage before. Berger concluded man's ancestors had to survive not just being hunted from the ground, but from the air. Such discoveries are "key to understanding why we humans today view the world they way we do," he said. Berger's research has been reviewed by others and is due to appear in the February edition of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Legal Status of Women during the Kings and Res Publica The Roman Familia: Women during the first century had no political rights and it was even deemed natural. The only way women were able to exercise civil rights had to be done through the consent of a

How do I submit articles for the website. I'm intending on submitting a very long article on the legal status of women during the Kings/ Republic. After that I'm gonna write more about the social status of woman. Then on about women in the empire and during the byzantine era. Well anyways, if you want to see the article, I post it on the forum here.

Link to full article Elias Wondimu has heard that Italian leaders want North America's museums to hand back dozens of artifacts that came from Italian soil, and he's not ready to argue about that. But, says Wondimu, a 32-year-old Ethiopian expatriate in Hollywood and publisher of history books, if there's going to be a global debate over Italy and cultural patrimony, he has three words to contribute: "Obelisk of Axum." The Obelisk of Axum is an elaborately inscribed stone monolith, 78 feet from base to tip, that spent most of the 20th century in the middle of a busy Roman piazza. In the eyes of many an Ethiopian, it's 180 tons of evidence that 20th century Italy snapped up treasures in Ethiopia, then resisted their return for half a century with the same lawless zeal that Italian leaders accuse U.S. museums of displaying...

link to article Hunters should not be allowed to use a prehistoric weapon known as an atlatl to kill deer, a state Game Commission internal study has concluded. One enthusiast for the