Sextus Roscius

Professor, I would like to ask you if you have an list, by date, of major battles durring the Roman Civil war. I can't seem to get ym head straight with them. Sextus,

How strange the world may be. But to me, an atheist, it was luck. Ah well The Romans had quite a interesting view of the vestals. Would hate to be one though.... such a boring life.

Mock naval battles were held prior to the building of the coliseum in different areas according to Suetonius and some were probably held in the circus maximus purely to meet space constraints after it was built. While mock naval battles could have been held as where, as suetonius says, and I agree with you full heartedly on that. Though it is impossible, unless a water channel was completely removed, filed in, and all documentation was destroyed, that there were mock naval battles in the circus maximus becuase of two things. 1. There is no remains or documents discovered to point us that there was, infact, mock naval battles in the circus maximus becuase had there been, excavation would've unearthed them at some point. The starting gates would be a prime example too becuase non of that is water proof. 2. With the center island of the Circus Maximus with the markers and other objects standing up off of it would've created obsticals for boats which doesn't seem practical.

Ah school, were you go to learn and socialize, but, I dread this place unlike my usual enthusiasm for learning (well at least compared to my peers) becuase of something scary that takes place tomorrow. I go back to school from my wonderful 5 day vacation, 4 of which I spent up in michigan where it snowed and I had a great time. 1 of those days on vacation I spent in a car if you total the to and from times. So, I came back from the trip, and thoughts of school and friends came rushing back to my mind, and I realized that I had the most dreaded task (at least for me), Gym class. Gym class at my school is taken to a new level of annoyance becuase: a. I'm not very athletic, not fat, just I don't like sports much. b. Our Gym teacher Coach Byle loves to make you do warm ups for ever, and I mean literaly 30 of the 45 minutes of class. c. A long, hard to make trip from the Gymnasium to latin class that comes imediatly after. d. Being sweaty for a entire class period e. having to do lots of work when I'm still waking up at 8:30 am So to conclude, I'm going to be in a foul mood for a few days, if not a few weeks. At least I've got my birth day to look forward to on Saturday.

Personaly, I think there is going to be a revolution in america in the near future of some sort or governmental reforms. After the end of two very bad terms, americans might finaly relize there is a world we've got to prepare for and that the current government no longer functions efficiantly, so that some one will lead a new party. As for the rest of the world, there will be increasements in Islamist radical movements that will eventually tople on themselves when Europe and North America finally get fed up enough with them to do something serious and we may see the emergence of a religious war (not in the sense of war, war, but in guruellia, espionage, and terrorist attacks) which will lead to the lose of many lives for nihill. Mainly, I beleive the entire problem for our future, is that Muslims produce so many kids and can't afford to give each one a decent life.

Hmm, indeed. Perhaps Tartarus would be fitting? I like that a lot, yes, very suitable. You have the green light from me. Also, Flavius, chaos is good if you view it in latin, but the context that new comers would get or veterens of the site who don't speak latin wouldn't agree with what we are trying to use the asylum for.

As I lumbered out of the 12 hour car trip from Michigan, fatigued and ready to hit the hay, I turned on my computer, went to UNRV.com and logged in. What do I see to my surprise! But, a notice flashing up in my face telling me I had been promoted to equestrian status by the omnisceint Triumvirate. It brought a spark to my eyes and I told the few people who I had avadible to tell at 10:30 PM and then got to doing my blog. Well, with much happiness, I know wait for something exciting to happen so I can post it here in my new blog.

Thank you for the translations flavius

I personaly am a fan of Caesar and of Sulla, so caesar gets my vote with Sulla running as a close second.

It depends on the ruling of the local and national officials, but hopefully they will be able to excavated the site. History should come before a new group of houses. Also, any city with "chester" in some part of its name (e.g. westchester, etc) were likely roman forts by defualt of the name. Chester comes from a latin word meaning "fort" essentaily, so it would be expected that most towns with the word in their name were originaly some form of ofrtification with a town that grew up around them (as often happened with forts)

Yes, it's beleived that he played the lyre since that is how he is pictured in many pictures from after and durring his reign. Though some people think he played the fiddle becuase of the phrase: "Nero fiddled while Rome burned" But, if we take the time to look into the music of the period, one will quickly notice there is no such thing as a fiddle, which is also a violin. BTW I'd heard that women had given birth durring the concerts but I'd never heard that people jumped off the theater walls, thats got to leave a worse headache than Nero's music.

Congratulations Germanicus, I myself have experianced a promotion over the holiday, but thats not as important as yours. All hail Germanicus, may he rule long and wise!

Ahhhh, This is my first post getting back from my vacation in Michigan over the Thanksgiving break which has left me exhausted, but there was something to cheer me up the minute I signed on, a promotion to equestrain! It seems I married into a good family at last... Anyways, I was wondering how to say "Yearly Bright Eyes" not a very usual thing but I'm having fun with a friend by playing a elaborate set of clues and would like to know how to asy it. Also, I want to know how to say "The Trials of Sextus Rocius"

hmmmm, I've wanted to know how to say "The roman empire fell becuase of its number system." P.S. Viggen, there is now a link to the page you are already on from my post.... thats got to be silly.

Like the worm eating its own tail.

I beleive a Similar reward was given to the first sailor who boarded a enemy ship durring a naval battle, was it not?

Thank you for that P.P. Wasn't another punishment simply being starved to death as with who ever tiberius's second heir was besides Caligula who was starved to death under the imperial palace, its rumoured that on the last few days before he died he was forced to eat his mattress stuffing!

A rebellion quelled before it began?

I like it, like it alot, but It seems the administration has taken to their original settings

hmm, not a bad idea, however the majority that subscribes and read those forums are newcomers and visitors via the search engines, i fear those people would be confused with a new name that means nothing to the average person... cheers viggen Thanks for taking time to notice it, but perhaps we could add a translation to it such as in the military, and religoius forums? Or is the admin trying to do with out that, I'm sure people would understand, since you have changed the ethics forum and the empire forum's names without translation, I assume these would be more populated by new subscribers than the arecheological forums. Also the little caption underneath the topic could do a lot to tell them about it, so all in all I beleive it could be done and make the site look more professional than it already is.

Perhaps new names for the aercheological (spelling, sorry) forums would be nice, though I'm at a lose of words to be used.

Tacitus, The Annals, 12, 35.3. Perhaps the Claymore does have this long a history as we traditionaly know it. The Vikings had them, so I wouldn't put it beyond. Perhaps people from germania and northern braitannia moved into the roman areas at some point and brought with them. Or it could be refering to sabres, but I'm in doubt as to that this was different from the ones we know today becuase its unlikely, but possible, that a word would change so much over a period of time. The vikings were relitively close to the romans time wise and since the vikings had them, I'm sure the roman definition must have been the same. Auxiliaries probley brought with them thier culture and military knowledge upon moving into the roman empire or being conquered by it. I'm sure the romans could see the advantage of a large, slashing, hacking, and bashing sword wielding by a ripped german in their forces. So It might be the same thing.

I live in the home of the most recent NCAA Team, doesn't matter much to me but might to some, Chapel Hill, the entire town revolves around the college UNC. Its in the great state of North Carolina in the US of A (Unified Sporks of Austria) or as better known (but not officialy named) The United States of America. I like it were I live but its too hot, the weather can never be just right (unlike the 3rd bowl of poorage).

A point well made, but the greeks had to compensate for their sheilds, which were much different. The English Pikeman didn't have as standardized equipment and often didn't fight with sheilds. The formation without sheilds would have allowed for slight changes in angles and direction of the phalanx formation without disrupting the overal defenses. Whereas the greek form of the phalanx used sheilds, which had to be kept in a certain overlaping wall (or simply held depending on era) which they depended on for defense becuase they didn't have the same body armor as the English Pike man later on. So when atempting to change direction of the phalanx these sheilds would have to be lifted up, there by lowering the defensive. They could not do this in battler becuase a opening in the sheild wall would break defenses which were nessacary becuase of the lesser body armor of the standard greek hoplite. All said and done the general would be weary to change position of the phalanx on the line when the formation was ready and marching towards the oponent (in this case roman) that could use any disruption in the order to its advantage with a deadly barrage of pilum and then a charge with the advantage of the broken phalanx. The phalanx would only function effectively against a roman oponent who had no opertunity to use its pilum with which to break up the tight packed formation. This means that the calvary would have to be used in order to keep the romans from their deadly charge, to effectively use the hammer and anvil strategy. This meant that the greek infentry had to be close enough to their roman oponents to have effect while not being damaged by pilum or other projectiles. Hence they added sheilds with which to defend against these projectiles creating the imobility of the phalanx.

While true that Caesar might have signed the death warrant for the empire, as F.C. said, for a admistration such as the senate to manage, or even counquer a empire so large, it would have to alter its function and format in ways unseen by humans as they are means to be. I feel that the empire was doomed to a dictatorship all along once the marian reforms had taken place, which put the favor of the soldiers not in the senate, but in the generals who payed them. This ultimatly took power away from the government. As we all know, when the army is more powerful than the politicians than both are doomed.