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Romans and Roos
#16
That mosaic also proves they had Nessies growing out of their backs! Why isn't this stuff in Goldsworthy's new book? Mr G? Looks like a good subject for your next...? :lol: :lol: Confusedhock:
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)

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#17
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Matt Lukes:2ymgb0ku Wrote:How about the other way Robert- prove the Romans actually made to Australia- Africa was just across Their Sea, so no big deal to get exotic animals that way, but Australia? :lol:

Ah, so this isn't a real Roman artefact? I'm heartbroken. Big Grin

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I saw one of these at Vindonissa!
"...quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."


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#18
That's the famous statue of 'Skipio' the bush kangaroo :wink:
Memmia AKA Joanne Wenlock.
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#19
Oh, no! We've restarted the Second Punnic War!!!
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)

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#20
Quote:Can't prove it, but don't you think some vertically challenged slave might have had to fight with one in the arena?

I think you must be thinking of wallabies. The red kangaroo can grow up to 6 feet tall. And disembowel you with its hind feet. Nasty way to go.
"It is safer and more advantageous to overcome the enemy by planning and generalship than by sheer force"
The Strategikon of Emperor Maurice

Steven Lowe
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#21
could not resist...

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Valete,
TITVS/Daniele Sabatini

... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...


Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
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#22
Big Grin D D
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
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