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WotWotius

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  1. Happy Birthday! I hope that I'm not too late...
  2. Yes, wasn't the Legio IX transferred to the East?
  3. 'It is a "swords and sandals" epic featuring swashbuckling Celtic warriors and a disappearing Roman legion, set against the windswept backdrop of Hadrian's Wall. Now, The Eagle of the Ninth, Rosemary Sutcliff's historical children's novel set in Roman Scotland, is to be made into a "Scottish Western" by the Oscar-winning director, Kevin Macdonald...' Full story available here.
  4. The documentary spoke of another more 'inconclusive' site of gladiator remains. I believe it may well have been referring to a grave
  5. Your clear arrangement of Cicero's work regarding Caesar is much appreciated; it made my fifteen-minute presentation on him a much easier ordeal.
  6. There is actually considerable detail in the story as related by two major sources. Tacitus, The Annals - book 14; ch. 29-37 Cassius Dio, The Histories - book 62; ch. 1 - 12 Suetonius however, in Life of Nero, barely finds it worth mentioning... It is also mentioned in Tacitus' Agricola, 14-16:
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    Radicals.

    I can go through England thinking the first language there is Pakistani. I am sorry to say that Pakistani is not a real language; Pakistan houses at least 10 major languages, the second most spoken being English! Edit: spelling.
  8. Me too! Unfortunately I will be moving into my new house on the 28th, so I will not be present this time - my apologies.
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    Radicals.

    You must keep in mind that these are only titles - if you read the fine print, you will the party for what they are: idiots. IMMIGRATION - '...system of voluntary resettlement whereby those immigrants who are legally here will be afforded the opportunity to return to their lands of ethnic origin assisted by a generous financial incentives both for individuals and for the countries in question.' - hmm...let's put the above statement in terms that BNP supporters can understand: 'Get these bloody bongo-bongo, [insert other derogative terms for ethnics here] savages out of our country; the come here and steal our jobs, our women and our water...and they don't even wash their hands.' I have to say that the BNP rally that I passed in Oxford, was attended by skin-headed bigots, deluded by the belief that they are somehow the master-race!? EUROPE - '...work to restore Britain's family and trading ties with Australia, Canada and New Zealand...' - so they want to disassociate themselves with Europe, but want to set up an institution like the E.U., but with British speaking nations...well we don
  10. Will we be having another writing contest? I only ask because now that I am on study leave, writing an essay on something relevant to my course would really aid my revision.
  11. Actually, I think that Klingan has got it.
  12. Here is a rather interesting image of a Romano-British forum.
  13. Indeed that is correct. It was a fairly easy one
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    Radicals.

    Yesterday, I was absent-mindedly strolling on campus, when a fairly non-threatening History student handed me a leaflet with this website scrawled on it. Why the hell would any learned individual, any rational person, support such a foul party? Universities are supposed to be havens for liberal thought! Instead at Exeter we bear witness to radical political groups such as the BNP above and the public-school-boy-lead Conservative Future Society
  15. The speeches of Cato and Caesar are almost certainly a fabrication, mustered up by Sallust's desire to tell an over-dramatic narrative. The use of speeches in prose was often employed by the historians of antiquity; this was mainly because it gave them a chance to indulge in a display of rhetoric, but also it laid out, in a fairly clear manner, why two factions are in a state of juxtaposition. What is interesting about Sallust's work is that although he was of a different political calibre to Cato, the words Sallust places in his mouth almost shows a degree of respect for him. He may well have done this to show his admiration for a man who clearly possessed a greater persona than he did
  16. Fleeting the sharpened gladius of a debt collector, WotWotius (aka Sextus Hirtius Maximus) seeks temporary asylum at the party. He catches his breath, utters a fumbled congratulations to the Doc, before exiting the premises for a second time. Hirtius
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