FLavius Valerius Constantinus

Gaul, simply because De Bello Gallico really convinced me that Caesar conquered those numerous tribes with ease due to the brilliant tactics.

Luckily we are all educated. To the mediocre person, that sounds practically tempting. To the person with intuition, its convincing but largely impossible with the given facts. Come on, 65% goes towards the bankers, absurd. By the way, I suggest you get a new account with a good ISP who will actually block spam and suspicious emails like comcast for example.

Yeah, must have sucked to know that you killed one of the world's greatest minds. It's like me in the modern equivalent killing Einstein long before he even died.

At the point of Hadrian's reign, the point is to no longer conquer but to defend the current empire at hand because of financial difficulties and resources. So there would be no point in making forts with the purpose of conquering the enemy. That's what I think.

My Latin teacher today mentioned that there is evidence that quite a number of Patricians deliberately moved their patrician status to Plebeian. Can anyone confirm this?

I really hate carpet bombings, there's no use to it. I mean you are already winning the war, what strategic importance would you need in demoralizing and murduring innocent civilians. Actually, the death toll from the Dresden conflageration was 500,000 people.

Link LONDON, October 31 (IranMania) - A team of archaeologists working at the 3000-year-old site of Gohar-Tappeh in Iran?s northern province of Mazandaran have recently unearthed a skeleton of a warrior buried in an attacking pose with a dagger in his hands, the Persian service of the Cultural Heritage News (CHN) agency reported. ?He is holding a 26-centimeter dagger and appears to be making a forward thrust. The evidence shows that he was originally buried in this pose,? the director of the team, Ali Mahforuzi, said. This is the first burial in this style ever discovered in Iran. The archaeologists have not yet been able to determine why the man was buried in such a position. ?Beside the skeleton, a number of dishes have also been found which seem to have been presented to the warrior. One of the dishes has some holes in it containing the remains of coal. Archaeologists had discovered such dishes before, but they could not determine their practical application; but the traces of coal indicate that the dish has been used for burning agalloch or other types of incense. The skeleton was also wearing a beautiful coiled shell necklace,? Mahforuzi explained. Covering an area of 40 hectares, Gohar-Tappeh is located near the town of Behshahr. Ruins and other artifacts unearthed in the region indicate that the site dates back to the Iron Age, but further study is required to determine its specific period during the Iron Age. Archaeologists believe that the large extent of the site implies that the region had been very developed in trade and competed with neighboring areas. On September 27, Mahforuzi announced that his team had discovered a number of bull statuettes, although most were broken into pieces. Afterwards they unearthed a skeleton of a child and a bronze pendant with a bull-horn motif at Gohar-Tappeh. The team has recently discovered an unidentified artifact in a grave beside a skeleton, which some prominent musicians of Mazandaran believe looks like a clarinet. If the archaeologists can prove that the artifact is a musical instrument, the 3000-year-old relic would be the oldest musical instrument ever discovered in the region. Mazandaran is one of Iran?s archaeological poles. Studies show that the region has been inhabited for over 400,000 years. Urbanization is thought to have developed in the region some time around 3000 BC, and the new findings at Gohar-Tappeh provide further evidence for this theory. The excavations, which aim to determine the style of urbanization of the site, will continue until late November.

That, which confuses me much. There are many possibilities. For example, when Legion X mutinied, Caesar wanted to disband them all and eject them from the army, but plead that they rather be decimated and so Caesar relented and none of them died because of Caesar's good will. It was also in the same case of Titus, he only executed the starters of the revolt.

Did he actually kill every tenth man in the legion though or he just let them off the hook?I also recount that the legion that was based in Egypt during Diocletion's reign was decimated because the whole legion was Christian and so Diocletion who commanded they worship decimated them unmercifully knowing the full consequences.

They use to be forts far furthur from Hadrian's wall when the Romans were successively subduing the Picts but because the Picts stopped coming out into open battle, which they decided to continue the fighting throught the hit and run tactics in the forests, the Roman could hold out any longer in part of Scotland and so then Hadrian's wall happened.(Correct me if I'm way off, I remembered watching the Discovery Channel's documentary on this.)

Wowie, does it work in bright colors?

The Holy Empire of Imperator Do has just joined the UNRV region.

My favorite line of all in the movie and kinda the most memorable or coolest is " People should know when they are conquered."

Wow, those punishments seems to bring me the most visual imagery so far of all the punishments.

My Latin Teacher gave me book called Roman Medicine by John Scarborough and has a big chapter on medicine in the Roman Army.I could scan it for you I think.I talks alot about the medical corps ranging from Caesars army to different other generals.Well the book only talks about how they served their purpose came to be one. It applies to only strictly medicine topic.

Is cutting off the genitalia common among women (or men) a Roman practice.

It's working now.

I'll probably be a centurion working his way up to tribune and so on and I'd probably be based in Britannia or Judea.

Damnatio, uhoh, I hope I don't join them one day.

The numbers I think are most confusing. So they don't use the numbers of the legions whom were defeated, lost, or disgraced in battle?

For example Legionem XXIV Gemina. Can someone explain to me how a legion is formed from scratch and how the legions get their specific names and numbers. I really wish someone can explain this to me.Oh also, how would you tell the origin of a legion.

I'm definitely going to join but the things thats been irking me is what to name my nation, I want it to be a little Roman yet funny or cornyish in a way thats cool.

Don't forget the naval battles. The battle of Ecnomus : In 256, the Romans sent a fleet of no less than 330 ships from Sicily to Africa, where the army aboard was supposed to strike at the Carthaginian homeland. Before crossing the Mediterranean, it encountered a Carthaginian navy of 350 ships, not far from modern Licata, at Ecnomus, an early third-century city founded by refugees from Gela, The site has been identified at Poggio di Sant' Angelo. The fight at Ecnomus was to be one of the greatest battles in history, because on both sides, more than 140,000 men were present. The Romans won the battle, and could continue to Africa, where they were eventually defeated. I mean 140,000 men fought this naval battle, what a tremendous number.I can't seem to remember the name of the Roman admiral. Also, name some other famous admirals [EDIT PP: Posting excerpts from other sites is perfectly acceptable, but please, always, always add a link to the source Livius.org

The most opulent and largest baths were the baths of Carracala.

Happy Birthday and since its your birthday everyone sings the birthday song. How old are you now...how old are you nowwwwwwwww?