Posted on 09/18/2023 8:58:35 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in the year 96, the Roman Emperor Domitian was assassinated … his very last act in the purple having been to condemn to death an astrologer who predicted Domitian’s murder.
Son and second successor of the Flavian dynasty’s founder, Vespasian, Domitian left his mark on Italian postcard stands by decorating the Roman Forum with the Arch of Titus to salute his older brother and immediate predecessor.
In his day he was known as a tyrant, especially compared to the dynasty which followed him; indeed, Domitian’s murder was the exact birth date for imperial Rome’s golden age in the judgment of Gibbon, who opined that “if a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.”.....
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Elapsed from?
This is what happens when you try to write 'smart' and fail.
Bet he didn’t see that coming!.................
Gibbon is an enduring fool for spreading congenital lies from his flawed understanding of history.
Domitian narrowly escaped being killed in the fighting in Rome in December 69 between Vitellius' supporters and his father's supporters (Vespasian was not yet in Rome). A lot of Romans later wished he had been killed then.
So the astrologer turned out to be right.
The word “that” refers to the period of time from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. “The period which elapsed...” is perfectly good grammar.
“The period which elapsed” IS good grammar.
“name that which elapsed from the death of” is not.
Oh wise sage. Please give us examples…
Just read the whole sentence. The word “that” in the fragment you quote refers to the period which a man might be called to fix.
"I don't know how many of you people believe in astrology... (girl in crowd: You're a Sagittarius!) That's right, I am a Sagittarius, the most philosophical of the signs (girl in crowd: I know, so am I!) Anyway, I don't believe in it. (girl in crowd: I don't either!) I think it's a bunch of ********, myself..." -- Jim Morrison
Nuh-UHHHhhhhh...
Yuh-HUHHHhhhhh...
I know you are but what am i?
I’m rubber and you’re glue. Everything you say bounces off of me and sticks to you. Neener-neener.
(This is kind of fun.)
Oh yeah? well I told you so...
So’s yer old man.
The best example is Gibbon’s execrable fantasy tale of the destruction of the great library of Alexandria by Christians. This calumnious nonsense has been repeated over and over again for the past couple of centuries. But honest historical scholarship has revealed what a fatuous myth this is.
Even the “History for Atheists” channel on YouTube has taken this on to show how idiotic this assertion by Gibbon is: https://youtu.be/yRXwDHnixc0?si=r76IwwJGU3JqkrYG
Where did we leave off...?
I believe I had mentioned your father in a somewhat archaic term of general derision.
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