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Originally Posted by Pete
Good thing the Romans never used slang. We'd be a world of hurt if they did.
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LMAO! I always enjoy listening in as a learned prude attempts to sanitize some Roman Soldier's latrine graffiti. It's even more fun when they get ahold of something contributed by a provincial who learned Latin from his drill sgt. (Where do people think the word "vulgar" comes from?)
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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