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To: Modernman
....multi-religious empire that spanned from Scotland to the Danube to the Sahara.

I beg your pardon, the Romans never subjugated the Scots.

32 posted on 02/24/2004 2:38:42 PM PST by elbucko
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To: elbucko
I beg your pardon, the Romans never subjugated the Scots.

Parts of it, they did. In any event, the Scots certainly would have been better off as part of the Empire than as dirty painted savages.

37 posted on 02/24/2004 2:47:48 PM PST by Modernman ("The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must." - Thucydides)
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&***I beg your pardon, the Romans never subjugated the Scots.***

What was it Gibbon(Fall of the Roman Empire) said about the reason Rome didn't want Scotland? I seem to forget.
40 posted on 02/24/2004 2:58:07 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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