To: Willie Green
I thought that if the thumb went inside the fist, that meant to finish the vanquished fighter.
315 posted on
12/12/2005 11:39:50 AM PST by
Tree of Liberty
(requiescat in pace, President Reagan)
To: Tree of Liberty; Willie Green
Nobody's sure what "pollice verso" meant -- it isn't clear from the contemporary texts.
350 posted on
12/12/2005 11:45:39 AM PST by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: Tree of Liberty
I thought that if the thumb went inside the fist, that meant to finish the vanquished fighter.No, I'm pretty sure that one meant that the emperor was leaving the colliseum to attend an orgy.
To: Tree of Liberty
It is judgment day! He made a choice to murder, and now its time to pay for those choices. We all make choices, every day of our lives. We have to live or die for those choices. Its time to meet his maker!
398 posted on
12/12/2005 11:56:13 AM PST by
57Chevy
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