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To: SunkenCiv

I would have figured the Greeks for this, not the Romans...


2 posted on 09/04/2008 10:58:06 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: PzLdr

/rimshot!

(uh, so to speak)


4 posted on 09/04/2008 11:00:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: PzLdr

Haven’t you ever heard of Elagabalus, AKA Heliogabalus Rome’s gayest emperor?

He’s famous for saying of one of them, as the Praetorian Guard was marching away all of his male couriers to be executed in the arena, “Can you not spare me this one man?”. They didn’t. Gotta love Roman pragmatism.

(Source Dio Cassius.)


6 posted on 09/04/2008 11:08:00 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (McCain is at least a Trajan, not a Galba.)
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To: PzLdr

In fact, homosexual acts were accepted among the Romans too. There was a saying about Julius Caesar that went something like this: “To every wife he was a husband, to every husband a wife.”


7 posted on 09/04/2008 11:08:25 PM PDT by FFranco
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