You really come through again and again with the best shit on Lemmy. I’m not going to quit saying it. Do you mind if I ask what you do for work?
Without getting too specific, I do clerical work online. The schedule and pay are flexible. It only gets me a poverty-level existence, but I don’t need much more than that.
So that’s where they got that from!
Service grants citizenship.
Do you want to know more?
[desire to know more intensifies]
My ancestors, the most ancient of whom was made at once a citizen and a noble of Rome, encourage me to govern by the same policy of transferring to this city all conspicuous merit, wherever found.
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What was the ruin of Sparta and Athens, but this, that mighty as they were in war, they spurned from them as aliens those whom they had conquered? Our founder Romulus, on the other hand, was so wise that he fought as enemies and then hailed as fellow-citizens several nations on the very same day.
- Emperor Claudius
That’s actually a very interesting counter point to the racist anti immigration chuds that fetishise the Roman Empire.
Indeed. Romans certainly had their fair share of xenophobia and cultural chauvinism, but the racist anti-immigration chuds would balk at Rome’s actual attitudes towards folk-who-aren’t-lily-white.
African-born Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, his Syrian wife, and their mixed-race children (one of whom was posthumously erased by his brother when he came to power - family squabbles!)
Why does it say “sex memes” on the bottom left?
Because sex memes are timeless o7
(probably an abbreviation, Romans loved abbreviations, of the auxiliary’s name, Sextus Memmius Clearchi)
It always amazes me how archaeologists can read barely legible words on time-worn artifacts.
My friend was getting married. They said if Roman soldiers could handle being in the legions for 20 years, my friend could handle being in a marriage for that long a time.
Funny enough, for the first ~200 years of the Roman Empire, legionaries weren’t allowed to (legally) marry
“I am married – married to the legion!”
