Viggen Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Back in 2012, Grant Adamson, a doctoral candidate at Rice University, was able to decipher a 1,800-year old letter written by an Egyptian soldier named Aurelius Polion who served in the Roman legion as a volunteer. The heartrending words of Aurelius Polion, the (rarely) literate Roman legionary, addressed to his mother (who was a bread-seller), reads like this – I pray that you are in good health night and day, and I always make obeisance before all the gods on your behalf. I do not cease writing to you, but you do not have me in mind. But I do my part writing to you always and do not cease bearing you (in mind) and having you in my heart. But you never wrote to me concerning your health, how you are doing. I am worried about you because although you received letters from me often, you never wrote back to me so that I may know how you... via RealofHIstory 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indianasmith Posted November 24, 2016 Report Share Posted November 24, 2016 Human nature is the one great constant of history, is it not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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