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To: SunkenCiv

Roman legions no doubt had funeral rites for fallen comrades. Suspect they involved a lamp and a bronze coin for the dead soldier’s safe passage to the Elysian fields.


5 posted on 02/12/2023 7:39:46 AM PST by allendale
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To: allendale

Could also be a previously unknown board game, a sort of reverse D&D — instead of a bunch of college-aged couch potatoes imagining themselves involved in archaic warfare, a bunch of men involved in archaic warfare were imagining themselves doing something else.


10 posted on 02/12/2023 7:47:52 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: allendale

And it might have been 22 legionaires were killed in a battle in which the Legion lost thus unable to recover and properly bury their dead. The funeral service held back at the Roman permanent camp : alamp to light the way and a coin for the ferryman for each soldier.


24 posted on 02/12/2023 2:51:23 PM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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