Thanks for informing me, Mr. Gaius! (Believe it or not: I didn't know where these letters stood-for)... So: Greetings and LOL, from Jach. ... the ... The ... ...
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ianmcl2000
Mar 3, 2003 11:01 am
From the top of my head 'Khaki' the colour often used in military uniforms comes from a corruptionof the Hindi word for 'Dust' (the colour is used for...
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ianmcl2000
Mar 3, 2003 11:07 am
Here's one of those annoying questions that pop into your head at some inopportune time... Would anyone like to estimate which stately family or families ...
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jachthondus
Mar 3, 2003 11:29 am
Reading your message, I totally agree with you, Caesariensis! This morning I found an article, (filling a whole page), in one of the leading papers, heading...
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jachthondus
Mar 3, 2003 11:54 am
Thanks, Ian! Letting my little-brains go-and-think: This "dust-colour" for military-uniforms is anyway much-more clever then the jolly "red-blue- white" of the...
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jachthondus
Mar 3, 2003 12:05 pm
It's a sort of "similar-question" that I did ask some weeks ago about "the minor-Caesars", who had been supporting Julius Caesar in his "climbing-up on the...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Mar 3, 2003 12:24 pm
The Julian clan seems to have slipped into obscurity with the death of Nero. I wonder if it ceased to exist due to low birth rate and patri/matri/fratricide....
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Mar 3, 2003 12:27 pm
If Marcus Aurelius was of related to the Aurelius Cotta's at the time of Gaius Narius and Sulla then they would have a claim to long lived prominence. ... Did...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Mar 3, 2003 1:08 pm
What you say is a distinct possibility, though not necessarily what will happen. The majority of people will probably never appreciate the importance of...
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me-in-@...
caesariensis
Mar 3, 2003 1:45 pm
... From : Richard <gauiscaecilius@...> To : imperialrome2@... Date : 03 March 2003 13:08:19 Subject : [Imperial Rome] Re: The lack of...
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khakiberetman
Mar 3, 2003 1:46 pm
Remember, though, that Marcus Aurelius was born M. Annius Verus... he only acquired the nomen "Aurelius"; through his adoption by Antoninus Pius (M. Aurelius...
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jachthondus
Mar 3, 2003 2:03 pm
That certainly is a good-and-comforting message indeed, Mr. Gaius! But nevertheless, I am so free as to stick to my idea, that only a tiny-minority of the...
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jachthondus
Mar 3, 2003 2:03 pm
That certainly is a good-and-comforting message indeed, Mr. Gaius! But nevertheless, I am so free as to stick to my idea, that only a tiny-minority of the...
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jachthondus
Mar 3, 2003 4:39 pm
Whatever: The Great-and-Interesting "Bush-Emperor" of the US will lead us safely to democracy-and-morality, by makeing WAR anyway, in the name of "Justice"... ...
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Mary Harrsch
presencefrom...
Mar 3, 2003 5:39 pm
Alexandria Library Scholars Collective is apparently hoping to virtually recreate it's ancient predecessor with the goal of eventually digitizing every book in...
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Mary Harrsch
presencefrom...
Mar 3, 2003 5:55 pm
Jach, I know you are an admirer of Cicero so I must ask a question. In my current audio course on famous Romans, Dr. Fears describes Cicero as a very upright...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Mar 3, 2003 6:50 pm
It is to be hoped that they save the texts from Timbuktu even though I don't know what the library contains purely on the principle that all learning is...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Mar 3, 2003 7:04 pm
Certainly the internet is a double edged sword. For the undiscriminating who believe everything they read particularly if its in a newspaper will believe the...
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khakiberetman
Mar 3, 2003 10:16 pm
I've seen reports about several of these "endangered libraries" which are dotted in settlements around the Sahara, southern Morocco, Mauretania, Mali... really...
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Mary Harrsch
presencefrom...
Mar 3, 2003 10:27 pm
I'm sure the people of Iraq thank you for the prayers, Jach. Last Friday, I attended an unprecedented meeting of the University Assembly where those present...
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Mary Harrsch
presencefrom...
Mar 3, 2003 10:45 pm
And I thought LOL meant "Lots of Luck"! I like laughs better! :-) - Libitina Mary Harrsch Network & Information Systems Manager College of Education ...
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Mary Harrsch
presencefrom...
Mar 4, 2003 12:43 am
As I was reading through the items listed in David Meadows Explorator, I came across the following article that I found quite interesting. A professor of...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Mar 4, 2003 7:12 am
That is the problem with acronyms they can have different meanings to different people. Though such shorthand is useful and of course used by the Romans -...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Mar 4, 2003 7:25 am
Welcome to the Imperial Rome group where we discuss just about anything to do with Rome and the cultures that surround her. I hope that you will want to join...
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Mette
cornelia_coc...
Mar 4, 2003 10:54 am
Mary, as you are "our man in the field" I thought you might like to see this site from Iran http://www.iranmiras.org/en_site/Home_E.asp. I know that there is...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Mar 4, 2003 12:29 pm
Whatever the varying opinions as to Nero's talents as an artist he is clearly not without a witty tongue as this rather black joke shows. Aftee Claudius death...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Mar 4, 2003 12:32 pm
That is surely the difference between poetry and doggerel. Though to more modern readers the Romans could be very frank in their expression. I always try to...
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jachthondus
Mar 4, 2003 1:22 pm
What we do know about Romans and their ideas about LOVE, does usually come from well-known Writers, who's works have survived... We all do know, that the...
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jachthondus
Mar 4, 2003 2:26 pm
I always have doubted, Mr. Gaius, whether this saying, which you are quoting, has to be seen as "authentical", or as later-on "hinein- interpretiert", (as the...
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jachthondus
Mar 4, 2003 5:52 pm
Hallo Libitina-Mary, Thanks for your two interesting-messages to my adress! About the "Emperor Buch", we seem to ABSOLUTELY-agree... About Cicero: Octavianus...
