11-05-2006, 09:04 PM
Lucius Vorenus & Titus Pullo WERE actual CENTURONS.
I have just been continuing teh reading of Caesars GALLIC WARS and in it, he decsribes " two splendid fellows in that legion, Tutus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus, both of them centruions abd both nearly qualified for the first grade. They were for ever arguing over their respective merits, and every year forund them at loggerheads in the race for promotion. At the height of this action ( that of teh attack by germanic tribes on Cicero's camp) Pullo suddenly remarked " Come on Vorenus, what are you waiting for? we'lll finish that arguement to-day." it goes on to describe how both get surrounded by the enemy and eachoher comes to the rescue, much the same in the movie.
So, maybe there is more historical correctness to the series than we acknowledge and we are getting bogged down in the costumes.
I have just been continuing teh reading of Caesars GALLIC WARS and in it, he decsribes " two splendid fellows in that legion, Tutus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus, both of them centruions abd both nearly qualified for the first grade. They were for ever arguing over their respective merits, and every year forund them at loggerheads in the race for promotion. At the height of this action ( that of teh attack by germanic tribes on Cicero's camp) Pullo suddenly remarked " Come on Vorenus, what are you waiting for? we'lll finish that arguement to-day." it goes on to describe how both get surrounded by the enemy and eachoher comes to the rescue, much the same in the movie.
So, maybe there is more historical correctness to the series than we acknowledge and we are getting bogged down in the costumes.
Rubicon
"let the die be cast "
(Stefano Rinaldo)
"let the die be cast "
(Stefano Rinaldo)