Comments on: Top 10 Myths About the Romans

By: Ferus

Ferus — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:17:24 +0000

incredible! You should disprove mythical science, like teh 2012 theory. In which we will be aligned with the center of the galaxy, but in reality, we will be coming out of the line of equator from the center of the galaxy. The line of the equator has been aligned with the sun since 1998 and the line will stop touching it by 2012. So rather, instead of aligning with the center in 2012, we’ll be unaligning by that time. This disproves most 2012 apacalyptic theories at all! I’d love it if u posted a busting of any mythical science or theories!

By: Beltsasar

Beltsasar — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:38:34 +0000

Some belive that the emperor gave thumbs down in a gladiator fight to indicate to stab the defeated with the deadly blow, or he’d give the closed hand to indicate a sword put back in its holder

By: lrigD

lrigD — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:45:27 +0000

Kinda late to say this, but…
Kai su teknon does not translate as ‘and you also’. In ancient Greek, kai could mean both ‘and’ and ‘also/too’. Teknon means ‘child’.
So it really is: ‘And/Also you, child’.

Some of the first words I ever learnt in Ancient Greek…

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10 Symbols Whose Meanings Have Been Forgotten - Listverse — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:31:49 +0000

[...] thumbs up sign is most commonly (but wrongly) thought to descend from gladiatorial contests in which the audience determined whether the [...]

By: w

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:19:17 +0000

i love sex

By: vanddita

vanddita — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:17:52 +0000

i love to see boys fully naked.i kiss them

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:09:25 +0000

Great list!

There are lots of varying accounts of Caesar’s last words, including ones that state he didn’t say anything. To be fair, he had just been stabbed 23 times, including in the face, destroying his left eye socket, it seems highly unlikely that he would have been able to say anything at all, let alone anything as thoughtful as the Brutus thing!

By: lifemare

lifemare — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:11:38 +0000

Cid is correct. The best translation would be “Even you, Son?” alluding to the fact that even his own son Brutus would plot against him and fatally betray him.
No, he does not refer to Brutus by his name, but there’s no mystery to his final uttering.

By: ego

ego — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:36:08 +0000

oh, that makes me sad it didn’t post my full name which was ego<3latinam….

By: ego

ego — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:32:43 +0000

jfrater:
I agree with Dan. You only site your sources twice: in one of your comments and using wikipedia. While I quite often read wikipedia, I try not to pass it by as a valid source. I do accept the fact that wikipedia can be accurate, but you must keep in mind it is very easy to influence the articles to reflect your personal opinion. So it would be nice if you could site some other sources of your information.

omg:
you say that people who lived in Rome were the only Roman citizens and that it was hard to become a Roman citizen. The people in Latinam were the citizens of the Roman Empire (well for the majority of the history of the Roman Empire) and thus, could be called Roman citizens.