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To: SunkenCiv

I forgot to mention that Tacitus said that particular army ate meat at that time. It was a footnote by the publishers that said they preferred bread, so not actually Tacitus.


22 posted on 03/16/2025 8:29:34 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I don’t doubt it, I couldn’t find it, but being a lazy sod, I didn’t look that hard (Annals, and one book of Agricola). :^)


24 posted on 03/16/2025 10:33:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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