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Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
2,500 years and little has changed. Doesn't that look a lot like @Barbaria1
The other fresco shows two men and a woman, presumably the same actors of the first scene, while standing penetrate the woman between them from the front and the backside.
malins
Stumbling Seeker
Explains the beatingI refused to swallow back then too
Rias
Neko Girl
oho new archeological evidences letters write on stone found in gladiators school in pompei city saying crucifixion was very popular sport in ancient rome like gladiators fights on arena not only punishment for murderers,bandits,pirates squirrels and not only sometimes for enterain fat lazy ugly squirrels senators and spectators on arena by executed squirrels bandits meow 
RacingRodent
Consul
A bit later than our normal Roman fair but an interesting tale about a possible English colony in the East Roman Empire (aka Byzantine Empire) post Norman conquest.
neoskosmos.com
Byzantine 'New England', a forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony
Mention the words “New England” and the mind conjures up images of privileged white adolescents being incited by non-compliant with the directives of the Education Department teachers, to rip pages …
neoskosmos.com
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montycrusto
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I’d doesn’t say where this “ New England” was exactly.. but it sounds like CrimeaA bit later than our normal Roman fair but an interesting tale about a possible English colony in the East Roman Empire (aka Byzantine Empire) post Norman conquest.
Byzantine 'New England', a forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony
Mention the words “New England” and the mind conjures up images of privileged white adolescents being incited by non-compliant with the directives of the Education Department teachers, to rip pages …
RacingRodent
Consul
That is a common theory some folks pointing to the Londina River references in certain medieval charts
Another New England — in Crimea
Fleeing the Norman Conquest, English émigrés established a now-forgotten New England on the northern shore of the Black Sea.
bigthink.com
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montycrusto
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Bloody Normans....That is a common theory some folks pointing to the Londina River references in certain medieval charts
Another New England — in Crimea
Fleeing the Norman Conquest, English émigrés established a now-forgotten New England on the northern shore of the Black Sea.
A bit later than our normal Roman fair but an interesting tale about a possible English colony in the East Roman Empire (aka Byzantine Empire) post Norman conquest.
Byzantine 'New England', a forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony
Mention the words “New England” and the mind conjures up images of privileged white adolescents being incited by non-compliant with the directives of the Education Department teachers, to rip pages …
Anglo Saxon refugees were a well known element in Byzantium at the time, many finding service among the Varangians. A corner of the Balkans that was for a time English
People in early medieval times got around much more than you might think.
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
interesting--another legacy from Vesuvius
www.cnn.com
Scientists find intact brain cells in skull of man killed in Vesuvius eruption
The brain cells of a young man who died almost 2,000 years ago in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius have been found intact by a team of researchers in Italy.
poem21045
Tribunus Plebis
And from those few cells, they determined his very last thought!interesting--another legacy from Vesuvius
Scientists find intact brain cells in skull of man killed in Vesuvius eruption
The brain cells of a young man who died almost 2,000 years ago in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius have been found intact by a team of researchers in Italy.
"Damn it! Octavia must have left the oven on again!"
mp5stab
Hair and Nails
Would anyone happen to have CBS All Access for some godforsaken reason? I'd like to see this program, but on my computer. I don't have cable.oho new archeological evidences letters write on stone found in gladiators school in pompei city saying crucifixion was very popular sport in ancient rome like gladiators fights on arena not only punishment for murderers,bandits,pirates squirrels and not only sometimes for enterain fat lazy ugly squirrels senators and spectators on arena by executed squirrels bandits meow
Marcius
Tribune
La défunte aux entraves
A scholarly article in French -- the archaeologists found the grave of a woman troublesome enough to end up in permanent fetters in pre-Roman Gaul.
A scholarly article in French -- the archaeologists found the grave of a woman troublesome enough to end up in permanent fetters in pre-Roman Gaul.
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Also posted in Funny
Here's a real knee-slapper from ancient Rome:
Cuiusdam provincialis iocus asper innotuit. Intraverat Romam simillimus Caesari et in se omnium ora converterat. Augustus perduci ad se hominem iussit, visumque hoc modo interrogavit: Dic mihi, adolescens, fuit aliquando mater tua Romae? Negavit ille, nec contentus adiecit: Sed pater meus saepe.
- Macrobius, Saturnalia, 2.3
Anyone? @Eulalia ?
Here's a real knee-slapper from ancient Rome:
Cuiusdam provincialis iocus asper innotuit. Intraverat Romam simillimus Caesari et in se omnium ora converterat. Augustus perduci ad se hominem iussit, visumque hoc modo interrogavit: Dic mihi, adolescens, fuit aliquando mater tua Romae? Negavit ille, nec contentus adiecit: Sed pater meus saepe.
- Macrobius, Saturnalia, 2.3
Anyone? @Eulalia ?
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
@Eulalia translated in Funny.
Caligula's sense of humor
Lautiore convivio effusus subito in cachinnos consulibus, qui iuxta cubabant, quidnam rideret blande quaerentibus: "quid," inquit, "nisi uno meo nutu iugulari utrumque vestrum statim posse?"
Suetonius, Caligula, 32
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Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
At one of his more sumptuous banquets he [Caligula] suddenly burst into a fit of laughter, and when the consuls, who were reclining next to him, politely inquired at what he was laughing, he replied; “What do you suppose, except that at a single nod of mine both of you could have your throats cut on the spot?”
At a banquet, he suddenly fell into a fit of giggling, for which the consuls reclining beside him politely asked the reason:
'Oh, nothing,' he said, 'just that I only need to give a nod, and you'll both have your throats cut!'
(oi, I thought i was supposed to be the translator
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Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Here is a kind of joke that backfired on the teller. It is very difficult to translate. The humor is in a double meaning of some words.
Notati a censoribus, qui audientibus iis dixerant ioca quaedam intempestiviter; ac de eius quoque nota deliberatum, qui steterat forte apud eos oscitabundus.
Inter censorum severitates tria haec exempla in litteris sunt castigatissimae disciplinae. Unum est huiuscemodi: Censor agebat de uxoribus sollemne iusiurandum; verba erant ita concepta: "Ut tu ex animi tui sententia uxorem habes?" Qui iurabat, cavillator quidam et canicula et nimis ridicularius fuit. Is locum esse sibi ioci dicundi ratus, cum ita, uti mos erat, censor dixisset "ut tu ex animi tui sententia uxorem habes?", "habeo equidem," inquit, "uxorem, sed non hercle ex animi mei sententia." Tum censor eum, quod intempestive lascivisset, in aerarios rettulit causamque hanc ioci scurrilis apud se dicti subscripsit.
Indeed, a toughie. I think the point is, the Censor is asking a man to swear, using the phrase that was used for formal oath-taking, 'ex animi tui sententia', literally, 'by the judgement of your spirit' - 'Do you, by the judgement of your spirit, have a wife?' to which the wag replies, 'Indeed I have a wife, but, by Hercules, not according to the judgement of my spirit' i.e. 'she's certainly not what I want'. The Censor was not amused.