Posted on 09/15/2010 8:16:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Sounds like somebody who's ass Captain James Tiberius Kirk once kicked ;^)
I have to admit, that practice almost as much to recommend it as it does to, well, okay, maybe more than almost...
The first of the non-noble emperors was Vespasian, who was the first of the upwardly mobile army generals, and was final victor over a series of quickie emperors who tried to succeed Nero and each other during the “Year of Four Emperors”. Of course, there are some FReepers who look at that as the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire, which only went on for another 13 centuries or so (just not in Rome for the last thousand). ;’)
:’) It wasn’t a punitive raid for the Varian disaster. We’re lucky to have the amount of documentation that we do — most of the military and diplomatic correspondence was lost long, long ago, and there were no newspapers. What Thrax was responding to will probably never be known.
And the “Romans Out of Germany” chariot stickers.
:’D
If it was a punitive raid, it was for something else, the writing is a bit vague there.
They had better things to do, such as chop each other up in attempts to seize power. Civil wars disrupted Roman politics more than barbarian invasions — until there were no more Roman politics per se, and the barbarians finally took over Italy. But every region had resources, and in the negative sense, pushing borders further into unknown territory was a common practice by the Romans. They used bribery and trade to bring neighboring tribes into the Roman economy bit by bit and build proxy states as buffers, then later would annex these Romanized areas, and find the next group of proxies had already begun the process of integration on their own.
His friends called him Max - Max Thrax.
Well put.
The brothers Tiberius and Drusus were among the better generals in Roman history, Drusus alas died young.
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/rimshot!
Probably a season three episode.
Very much a Romanized non-Roman name. :’)
:’D
Interesting.
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That’s right. Here’s the site for that find: http://www.roemerschlachtamharzhorn.de
Site says that the Romans used to clear up after battles (collecting missiles, swords etc. for re-use) and the fact that archeologists found so much means the Romans were in a haste. They speculate the Romans might have suspected more trouble brewing.
He probably had to hustle down to Rome to defend his claim, and of course, he didn’t make it. :’)
Good one , poor Augustus
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