At the height of the Empire, it was said a man could walk the length of the road from Syria to Gaul with a bag of gold coins unmolested.
A robbery would result in a couple of maniples from the nearest Legio paying a “courtesy call”.
Meaning, they would find out who did it and execute them.
If a village tried to hide the offenders, the legionaries would line up every male over age fourteen in the lot at the edge of town. Then the Centurion would go down the line, pick out every tenth one, and that one would be run through with a gladius.
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Mmm. Hail, Mighty Salad!
“Orange Julius” Caesar by chance?
Anybody remember that beverage joint you could find in select shopping malls?
Yes I do. Think one was in the Hanford Mall, in Hanford california.
This isn’t a good weekend to be emulating Julius Caesar. Head on a swivel, Zed.
Al in AZ
At the height of the Empire, it was said a man could walk the length of the road from Syria to Gaul with a bag of gold coins unmolested.
A robbery would result in a couple of maniples from the nearest Legio paying a “courtesy call”.
Meaning, they would find out who did it and execute them.
If a village tried to hide the offenders, the legionaries would line up every male over age fourteen in the lot at the edge of town. Then the Centurion would go down the line, pick out every tenth one, and that one would be run through with a gladius.
Hence “decimation”. Literal meaning, “to destroy one-tenth of” whatever.
Never mind the misuse of the word by modern so-called “journalists” and “academics”.
The purpose was to send a very simple message.
Obey our laws. Respect everyone who does so.
Do anything else, and you will learn that fucking with Rome is hazardous to your health.
I believe that if he is trying to send any “message” at all, Trump is sending pretty much that one exactly.
clear ether
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
— Marcus Aurelius