09-15-2009, 12:43 PM
Quote:... when I saw the title, I immediately thought, "At about the same time as the lemon."It is a peculiar word that seems to have happily entered the German vocabulary, but no one else's!
Quote:I knew the question would be interesting; let's continue and see what happens.I was originally invited to write the chapter on "The army and the limes in the west" for the Blackwell Companion to the Roman Army, but declined on the grounds that it was much too complex a topic to cover in the allotted space and with only 5 footnotes. (I see many of the contributors ignored this stipulation.) The rather simplistic treatment which subsequently appeared in that book confirmed my fears.
