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10 Things You didn’t know about the Romans
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Editing ain’t what it used to be:
“However, {in} the lands that Rome incorporated into their empire, the people that long recited {resided} in those areas were able to sustain their native languages. The Roman elite themselves were bilingual, especially {those} {who were well-}versed in Greek. Any Roman citizen who knew Greek was {due} a great honor of sorts { “of sorts” = a strange mitigation}.
Roman Citizens {lowercase “c”} were not crucified unless you {they} committed treason: Any {lowercase “a”} other crime other {two “other”s?} than treason committed by a Roman Citizen {lowercase “c”} was either {punished by} exile from the empire or had {the requirement; or was required} to pay compensation. If you were not a Roman Citizen {lowercase “c”} you’re {you would be} likely will {to} be forced into a “Jesus Christ Pose” and crucified just like h{H}im.
Christians were prosecuted but were not meal{s} for the lions:
{etc….}
My guess is the Romans arn’t very good at writing in English.
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Attendee: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace – shut up!
Reg: There is not one of us who would not gladly suffer death to rid this country of the Romans once and for all.
Dissenter: Uh, well, one.
Reg: Oh, yeah, yeah, there’s one. But otherwise, we’re solid.
Hard to believe Romans would think a plant they never encountered was poisonous, considering tomatoes are New World plant.
Rome was a brutal police state. Still certain rules of Roman Justice were adopted in our constitution. The one we should have kept was if you falsely accused someone of a crime, you could get the sentence your victim was facing.
Interesting. What sentence would you get if you falsely accused someone of falsey accusing someone of a crime?