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Midieval Fantasy
Manisha
Joined: October 2009 Posts: 8319 Location: Jacksonville Florida. Gender:
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 Re: Your Past Life in Ancient Rome
Nephele wrote: Midieval Fantasy wrote: Wow. I could never do that. Me neither! But the ancient Romans (particularly the Stoics among them) were all about committing suicide as a matter of personal honor. When Cato the Younger found himself on the losing side of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, he took his sword and sliced open his abdomen. His friends tried to save him, and got a doctor to try to sew him up. But Cato was determined, and with his own hands he ripped himself open again and pulled out his intestines. -- Nephele I'm all for honorable suicide from ancient traditions, but wow- some of the ways people ended their lives through suicide are just shocking. You have to give them credit for their pain tolerance and being imaginative, I suppose.
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| Fri Sep 30, 2011 1:54 pm |
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Black Milk
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Joined: April 2002 Posts: 4130 Location: Ireland Gender:
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 Re: Your Past Life in Ancient Rome
Wow, don't mess with the Romans or they might...kill themselves? I'm not sure if he's known outside of Ireland, but Bobby Sands did something similar in 1981. Much sadder, but less disgusting than the dirty protest which I would have a much harder time participating in.
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Lachrymose
Cania
Joined: July 2009 Posts: 1088 Location: Zombietown, PA. Gender:
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 Re: Your Past Life in Ancient Rome
Unfortunately, Milk, I do remember the Bobby Sands story. It was very frustrating to hear the various news stories. Thanks, Nephele... And people from Crete live longer than anyone else in the world (just mentioning) and never, in my life, have I ever circumvented ANYTHING. Nephele wrote: In your past life, you were a crafty, freeborn Roman, but of low class and you chiefly lived by your wits. Your praenomen (first name) was "Spurius," customarily abbreviated as "S." Your nomen was "Circumventius," which may or may not have been your birth name, but it was the name by which you were known on the streets of Rome, due to your reputation for shifty dice-play and get-rich-quick schemes.
S. Circumventius = stvecriiucn sum
Circumventius: derived from the Latin word circumventio, meaning "a circumventing; defrauding."
In another one of your ancient Roman incarnations, your name was:
V. Creticinus = stvecriiucn
V.: The customary Roman abbreviation for the praenomen "Vibius."
Creticinus: meaning "of Creticus; like Creticus." You were given this additional name while serving as a high-ranking military officer under the command of the consul Q. Caecilius Metellus Creticus, who himself had received the honorific agnomen of "Creticus" for having subdued the island of Crete in 67 BCE.
-- Nephele
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| Sat Oct 01, 2011 4:36 pm |
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Nephele
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Joined: November 2008 Posts: 6745 Location: New York Gender:
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 Re: Your Past Life in Ancient Rome
Black Milk wrote: Wow, don't mess with the Romans or they might...kill themselves? Let that be a warning to you! Lachrymose wrote: And people from Crete live longer than anyone else in the world... Maybe that's because people from Crete didn't have the same suicide ethic that the Romans had?  -- Nephele
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| Sat Oct 01, 2011 5:24 pm |
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Deafening Silence
Stygia
Joined: January 2011 Posts: 151 Location: Tamworth, England Gender:
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 Re: Your Past Life in Ancient Rome
Hmm, even though I prefer ancient Greece, I suppose a Roman lifestyle would be interesting.
Here's my scramble:
echeoknraybrute
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Assumption is the mother of all f*ck ups.
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| Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:20 am |
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Nephele
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Joined: November 2008 Posts: 6745 Location: New York Gender:
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 Re: Your Past Life in Ancient Rome
Deafening Silence, I had to replace a couple of letters in your scramble (the k and y with a and i). You were a Romanized Gaul, a free woman who came to live in Rome. Your name of "Eucheria" (meaning "happy hand") was a common Latin name in Romanized Gaul (there was a poetess of antiquity who bore that name). Your second name of "Brontea" is the Greek word for the thunderstone, a precious gem of antiquity.
Eucheria Brontea = echeoknraybrute –ky +ai
-- Nephele
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| Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:57 am |
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Letalis Senium
Cocky Canard
Joined: January 2009 Posts: 5777 Location: Bed Gender:
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 Re: Your Past Life in Ancient Rome
I'd be fighting the invaders, like my ancestors did. Its not Woad, just bloody cold up here. 
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Jereth Magas, Gothsylvania Minister of Unnatural Resources.
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| Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:53 pm |
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Nephele
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Joined: November 2008 Posts: 6745 Location: New York Gender:
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 Re: Your Past Life in Ancient Rome
Letalis Senium wrote: I'd be fighting the invaders, like my ancestors did. Its not Woad, just bloody cold up here.  Actually, LS, you were a Greek tradesman.  I had to replace the j and w in your scramble with their classical equivalents of i and u. You were a free Greek living in Rome, known by both your Greek name of Agathemerus, and your Roman surname that described your rather scary occupation: Agathemerus Pellio= ehwlpoartgmelsaje –jw +iu Agathemerus: Greek name, possibly meaning "good day." One famous Agathemerus was a Greek geographer. Pellio: Latin, "a furrier." -- Nephele
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Harpy Senium
Dr. Strangeduck
Joined: January 2009 Posts: 5076 Location: Culver City, CA Gender:
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 Re: Your Past Life in Ancient Rome
LS was a furry? I can tell you he is horrified!  (yes, I know what you meant). skpaaalrnoiclsi
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| Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:58 am |
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Nephele
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Joined: November 2008 Posts: 6745 Location: New York Gender:
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 Re: Your Past Life in Ancient Rome
harpy, I had to change the k in your scramble to the Latin equivalent of c. You were the younger (and favored) daughter of the celebrated Roman actor, Quintus Roscius Gallus. As was often customary for a younger daughter, you were given a diminutive of your father's nomen Roscius for your own name of Roscilla (your elder sister was simply called Roscia). You were also given the additional name of Panisca, because as a small child you frequently accompanied your father on stage skipping and playing the pan pipes. You were the darling of the audience. Roscilla Panisca= skpaaalrnoiclsi –k +c Panisca: Latin, meaning "like a little female Pan." -- Nephele
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| Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:54 am |
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Deafening Silence
Stygia
Joined: January 2011 Posts: 151 Location: Tamworth, England Gender:
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 Re: Your Past Life in Ancient Rome
Thanks Nephele 
_________________ Death is life's way of telling you you're fired.
Assumption is the mother of all f*ck ups.
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| Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:00 pm |
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Letalis Senium
Cocky Canard
Joined: January 2009 Posts: 5777 Location: Bed Gender:
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 Re: Your Past Life in Ancient Rome
A furry Greek?  Thanks Nephele.
_________________ "Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so." - Doris Lessing
Jereth Magas, Gothsylvania Minister of Unnatural Resources.
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| Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:24 pm |
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Luna Decay
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May you do my screen name? 
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| Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:39 am |
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Nephele
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Joined: November 2008 Posts: 6745 Location: New York Gender:
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MistressOfTheDecay wrote: May you do my screen name?  Haha, MistressOfDecay, you must be psychic, because I was actually thinking of reviving this thread in celebration of Saturnalia (December 17th through 23rd). I blanagrammed your screen name (replacing f with a), to reveal that you were a beautiful slave girl brought to Rome from the town of Decorianensis in Byzacena (a Roman province in what is today known as the county of Tunisia). You were given the name of "Amethysta," after the precious, violet-colored gemstone. Your surname of "Decoresis" is a Latin haplology of "Decorianensis." Your full name in Rome is: Amethysta Decoresis= MistressOfDecay –f +a Happy Saturnalia! -- Nephele
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| Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:54 am |
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Luna Decay
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I am physic. Thank you, that's lovely! Happy Saturnalia to you too.
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| Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:13 am |
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