If only the could have peaceably been settled in Pannonia, Moesia, or Dacia...

/Roman history nerdom

Relatively Obscure: Ask Fritigern and the Goths how well peaceably settling works out.

Or the Romans with regards to the Huns, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, etc.

I know the answer...it doesn't work well when a trickle of migrants across the Danube and Rhine becomes a flood that the neither the Western nor Eastern Roman empires could contain.

Relatively Obscure: Hey, you let a whole bunch of selectively chosen, desperate, fighting-age people come on in with the promise of land and food as long as they pay taxes and fight for you, and then you try to "lol j/k :P" about the land and food part, don't come crying when you end up Adrianopwned.

I've been reading my way through Roman history (founding to the fall) the last couple of years. I'm up to Anthony Birley's book on Septimius Severus (Septimius Severus: The African Emperor) at the moment - his books on Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius were good. When I get to later antiquity we'll have to have this conversation again; I'm 8years removed from my Roman Empire undergrad classes and 12years removed from my high school Latin. lol

Relatively Obscure: Nice you had those classes. I just read for fun, because I'm apparently not forward-thinking enough to do it for credit ;)

At this point, my reading is purely for fun because it serves no practical purpose other than increasing my knowledge in a subject that few people I know care about. lol

teto85: These Romans are crazy.


Agrees.

Sarah Palin ruins everything.

At least it wasn't the Visigoths, those dudes be all kinds of crazy!

What have the Romans ever done for us?

/Hot like the forum in August

Feed the vandals to the lions.

It's all a Jute-ish conspiracy.

I won't put up with any more of this Bulgarity. Alani Gotha do is take my Suevi to the levee and Avar eel good time.

I suggest a nice old Roman punishment for these asshats.
Crucify em.

Kozakman: I suggest a nice old Roman punishment for these asshats.
Crucify em.

I suggest an old Roman punishment for these asshats.

Make them have sex with an old Roman.

They never learned to pict the right battle.

I want him fighting wabid, wild animals within a week.

Restituta, take off your tunic, please, and show us your hairy privates.

/original Roman vandalism

mamoru: Romanes eunt domus!

Centurion: What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"? People called Romanes, they go, the house?
Brian: It says, "Romans go home. "
Centurion: No it doesn't ! What's the latin for "Roman"? Come on, come on !
Brian: Er, "Romanus" !
Centurion: Vocative plural of "Romanus" is?
Brian: Er, er, "Romani" !
Centurion: [Writes "Romani" over Brian's graffiti] "Eunt"? What is "eunt"? Conjugate the verb, "to go" !
Brian: Er, "Ire". Er, "eo", "is", "it", "imus", "itis", "eunt".
Centurion: So, "eunt" is...?
Brian: Third person plural present indicative, "they go".
Centurion: But, "Romans, go home" is an order. So you must use...?
[He twists Brian's ear]
Brian: Aaagh ! The imperative !
Centurion: Which is...?
Brian: Aaaagh ! Er, er, "i" !
Centurion: How many Romans?
Brian: Aaaaagh ! Plural, plural, er, "ite" !
Centurion: [Writes "ite"] "Domus"? Nominative? "Go home" is motion towards, isn't it?
Brian: Dative !
[the Centurion holds a sword to his throat]
Brian: Aaagh ! Not the dative, not the dative ! Er, er, accusative, "Domum" !
Centurion: But "Domus" takes the locative, which is...?
Brian: Er, "Domum" !
Centurion: [Writes "Domum"] Understand? Now, write it out a hundred times.
Brian: Yes sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.
Centurion: Hail Caesar ! And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.

Cue the worlds smallest violin.

ace in your face: Sarah Palin ruins everything.

Came here for at least some U of I reference, no matter how obscure.

/Vandal

Foaming: rodeofrog: What have the Romans ever done for us?

The aqueduct.

Medicine?

IndyMBA: Relatively Obscure: Ask Fritigern and the Goths how well peaceably settling works out.

Or the Romans with regards to the Huns, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, etc.

I know the answer...it doesn't work well when a trickle of migrants across the Danube and Rhine becomes a flood that the neither the Western nor Eastern Roman empires could contain.



Well, thank FSM that could never happen here in the good old U.S. of A.

What have the Romans ever done for us?


they invented the trojan condom.

Paris1127: teto85: These Romans are crazy.

Sono Pazzi Questi Romani?

Seriously, the graffiti problem is terrible. When I first went to Rome, in 2001, I saw one phrase in English, on a railing near the Colosseum: "Did six million really die or was it a Zionist lie?" When I returned to Rome in 2006, it was still there, and it was still there the last time I was in Rome, in 2009.

Well at least it rhymed?

Gough: ace in your face: Sarah Palin ruins everything.

Came here for at least some U of I reference, no matter how obscure.

/Vandal

Yeah well... We own the Palouse.

/Coug.

people should know when they're conquered

Sofa King Smart: mamoru: Romanes eunt domus!

Centurion: What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"? People called Romanes, they go, the house?
Brian: It says, "Romans go home. "
Centurion: No it doesn't ! What's the latin for "Roman"? Come on, come on !
Brian: Er, "Romanus" !
Centurion: Vocative plural of "Romanus" is?
Brian: Er, er, "Romani" !
Centurion: [Writes "Romani" over Brian's graffiti] "Eunt"? What is "eunt"? Conjugate the verb, "to go" !
Brian: Er, "Ire". Er, "eo", "is", "it", "imus", "itis", "eunt".
Centurion: So, "eunt" is...?
Brian: Third person plural present indicative, "they go".
Centurion: But, "Romans, go home" is an order. So you must use...?
[He twists Brian's ear]
Brian: Aaagh ! The imperative !
Centurion: Which is...?
Brian: Aaaagh ! Er, er, "i" !
Centurion: How many Romans?
Brian: Aaaaagh ! Plural, plural, er, "ite" !
Centurion: [Writes "ite"] "Domus"? Nominative? "Go home" is motion towards, isn't it?
Brian: Dative !
[the Centurion holds a sword to his throat]
Brian: Aaagh ! Not the dative, not the dative ! Er, er, accusative, "Domum" !
Centurion: But "Domus" takes the locative, which is...?
Brian: Er, "Domum" !
Centurion: [Writes "Domum"] Understand? Now, write it out a hundred times.
Brian: Yes sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.
Centurion: Hail Caesar ! And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.

Thanks for the laugh Sofa King.
I am in what seems like the minority, because I think "Life of Brian" is superior to "Holy Grail".

Gough:

Came here for at least some U of I reference, no matter how obscure.


U of I reference?
Keep the Chief.

mamoru: Romanes eunt domus!

For some reason, I keep reading "Romans eat donuts..."

KeeptheChief: Thanks for the laugh Sofa King.
I am in what seems like the minority, because I think "Life of Brian" is superior to "Holy Grail".

Yeah but when he copy & pastes the entire scene no one else can play

Dorf11: Restituta, take off your tunic, please, and show us your hairy privates.

/original Roman vandalism

Fun read, thanks!

Dorf11: Restituta, take off your tunic, please, and show us your hairy privates.

/original Roman vandalism

Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they every have before!

Phileros is a eunuch!

/original Fark Politics tab?

For the troublemakers nothing is sacred: earlier this month vandals left anti-pope graffiti on the Scala Santa, or Holy Stairs, a major Catholic site that draws pilgrims from around the world who climb its 28 marble steps on their knees.

lmao, but banging children, moving pedophile priests around the globe to further their stock is devine.

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I approve of the display of history geekery in this thread. :)