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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:good news everyone I visited rome a few years ago and it was still there Have they solved the crime problem yet? Caesar said he'd solve the crime problem.
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:good news everyone I visited rome a few years ago and it was still there If you trust the liberal Italian media.
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That wasn't Rome, it was just a bunch of Ostrogoths squatting in the rubble of a once proud city.
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Rome ended before it started because time is a circle.
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Imagine four aeolipiles on the edge of a cliff.
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The second Augustus pushes the first Augustus off a cliff. The second Augustus becomes the first Augustus, the first Caesar becomes the second Augustus, the second Caesar becomes the first Caesar, and a cabbage becomes the second Caesar. Rome works the same way.
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Arglebargle III posted:The second Augustus pushes the first Augustus off a cliff. The second Augustus becomes the first Augustus, the first Caesar becomes the second Augustus, the second Caesar becomes the first Caesar, and a cabbage becomes the second Caesar.
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You gotta admire how Diocletian, in an attempt to end civil war forever, constructed a system literally guaranteed to cause civil war
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cheetah7071 posted:You gotta admire how Diocletian, in an attempt to end civil war forever, constructed a system literally guaranteed to cause civil war If we just destroy the civitas, there won't be anything to have a civil war about!
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Arglebargle III posted:The second Augustus pushes the first Augustus off a cliff. The second Augustus becomes the first Augustus, the first Caesar becomes the second Augustus, the second Caesar becomes the first Caesar, and a cabbage becomes the second Caesar. I stand humbled.
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Arglebargle III posted:The second Augustus pushes the first Augustus off a cliff. The second Augustus becomes the first Augustus, the first Caesar becomes the second Augustus, the second Caesar becomes the first Caesar, and a cabbage becomes the second Caesar. Except that sometimes someone in need of a male heir adopts, so a Caesar becomes a Aemelius or whatever.
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Well I don't see a lex in the book saying a man can't adopt a cabbage...
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Ivaylo "the Cabbage" Cæsar of Bulgaria is my favorite Roman emperor.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Ivaylo "the Cabbage" Cæsar of Bulgaria is my favorite Roman emperor. So you support domestic violence? cheetah7071 posted:You gotta admire how Diocletian, in an attempt to end civil war forever, constructed a system literally guaranteed to cause civil war Diocleitian sounds like if he was alive today he would be an economics professor who is baffles his models using perfectly rational actors arent accurate to reality.
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Jack2142 posted:So you support domestic violence? Diocletian, study economics?
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skasion posted:Diocletian, study economics? Diocletian would be a philosophy professor.
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Jack2142 posted:So you support domestic violence? I just like the idea of a monarch called "The Cabbage" to balance out all the "The Great"'s and the "The Holy"'s and what not and also know that the One True Rome was the mighty empire of Bulgaria. Had no idea the guy was a wife beater.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I just like the idea of a monarch called "The Cabbage" to balance out all the "The Great"'s and the "The Holy"'s and what not and also know that the One True Rome was the mighty empire of Bulgaria. Lil' Boot
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FreudianSlippers posted:I just like the idea of a monarch called "The Cabbage" to balance out all the "The Great"'s and the "The Holy"'s and what not and also know that the One True Rome was the mighty empire of Bulgaria. Brassica Prime is indeed the best god.
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Brassica Invictus
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cheetah7071 posted:Let's start the calendar in 3200 BC with the first person whose name we know, Kushim the barley seller. We live in 5217 AK, after Kushim I heard he was a bit of an rear end in a top hat though, like he'd use wet ladles to meter out the barley, and inbetween customers scraping off the barley that stuck so by the end of the day he had an extra measure or two to sell. A small thing but still.
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There's something very poetic about the fact that the oldest regular guy known to modern history was a petty rear end in a top hat
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skasion posted:There's something very poetic about the fact that the oldest regular guy known to modern history was a petty rear end in a top hat Humans. Humans never change.
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And the way he'd do you an unasked for favor, only to ask for you to do something in return, like you owed him? Hey Berkher, just the man I'm looking for! I'm in a bit of a pickle here, I'm expecting a shipment but I just got word from my partner the ox just up and died, so I need for someone to bring him the other ox. I thought I'll ask you, I'm sure you'd be happy to help after that time I got you a new door instead of that ratty old one you had. Besides it's your day off, right? It's a blessing of the gods! Market's tomorrow morning so I'd get moving if I were you, old pal.. There was nothing wrong with the old door. loving Kushim.
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VanSandman posted:Diocletian would be a philosophy professor. I was just reading about a book where the author compares him to Varoufakis.
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Mr Havafap posted:I heard he was a bit of an rear end in a top hat though, like he'd use wet ladles to meter out the barley, and inbetween customers scraping off the barley that stuck so by the end of the day he had an extra measure or two to sell. I read this as "wet ladies" and wondered what the hell.
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Doctor Malaver posted:I was just reading about a book where the author compares him to Varoufakis. I am in no way surprised by you reading books that compare Diocletian to Varoufakis.
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VanSandman posted:Diocletian would be a philosophy professor. Maybe he would just be a cabbage farmer.
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I was at a bar that was playing a terrible 60s spy movie, Fathom, and at one point a character opens a mysterious briefcase with... cabbage. I made a Cato joke and nobody laughed 
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Commedia non olet.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I read this as "wet ladies" and wondered what the hell. Kushim was also the first marketing mogul.
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Neat video detailing the composition of a Roman army.. Before I share it with my friends, can someone more knowledgeable and spergy please watch it and make sure that its accurate?
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Pontius Pilate posted:I was at a bar that was playing a terrible 60s spy movie, Fathom, and at one point a character opens a mysterious briefcase with... cabbage. That's why you shouldn't hang out with plebs, in spite of their delightful names.
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Colossal 3,000-year-old statue unearthed from Cairo pit Neat!
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Look on my works, etc.
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Animal posted:Neat video detailing the composition of a Roman army.. Before I share it with my friends, can someone more knowledgeable and spergy please watch it and make sure that its accurate? It's reasonably correct for the period it's trying to depict (the Principate). Some stuff:
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my dad posted:I am in no way surprised by you reading books that compare Diocletian to Varoufakis. I wasn't reading the book, I was reading about it. The author is not a historian but a theatre writer so I don't know what is his authority based on. He makes the following claims. - We know very little about Diocletian. Our main source is Lactantius and he's biased. - Diocletian was purging Christians because they wouldn't recognize him as God/Emperor. This was a political problem, not religious, and he first tried to resolve it peacefully. - They prevailed and did they best to destroy records of his life and portray him as a bloodthirsty tyrant which is an exaggeration. - One of the reasons for that was that they destroyed his sarcophagus and replaced it with Saint Domnius' bones so they needed an excuse for that. - Saint Domnius who was legend has it martyred under Diocletian might not have even existed. - There are no statues for which we are 100% sure that they represent of Diocletian. We can only be certain that coins represent him. Does this make sense? I'd like to read something good about Diocletian.
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PittTheElder posted:
Wait, so does this mean there technically are 100 men in each century?
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Koramei posted:Wait, so does this mean there technically are 100 men in each century? The century fluctuated between 80 and 120 men, differing over time and by troop type, iirc
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