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Posted on 10/27/2015 1:59:34 PM PDT by NYer
I would add Julius Caesar, Cincinnatus, and *ahem* Boethius in place of several of these.
Augustine, for example. As much as I love the good doctor, I wouldn’t have included him as a list of Romans since his self-identified as African and spent only a few years in Milan.
A Roman citizen? Yes. But a Roman? No.
You mean St. Augustine? Nah. Not quite ancient enough. He’s more from what I think they call the Patristic period. I’m thinking more of pagan Romans. Cicero, Cato, Marius, Sulla, Pompey Magnus and of course, Caesar. There’s so many.
Thank you for your great post. Thank you for the link. I appreciate your posts. Yes, digging up history from Ancient Rome becomes fun after much study. Cleopatra was beautiful and the Roman generals copied Julius by getting Egyptian wives.
No, he didn't. Dante had Satan's three mouths chewing Brutus, Cassius, and Judas Iscariot. The ultimate sin at the core of hell was rebellion (treason, insubordination) against a lawful superior, because that was Satan's own sin.
Constantine never enforced any “Sunday worship”. He prescribed that townspeople, but not farmers, obey a day of rest on Sunday. That’s all.
That’s all? He ordered shops closed on Sunday. There were penalties before disobedience. Jews were marginalized in a big way. So you approve of government mandated religion, eh?
Closing a store isn’t a religion.
It is an infringement to benefit Sun Day worshipers against others who keep the Lords Day.
Alright, but outside of St Augustine of Hippo, Virgil, The Emperor Constantine, The Empress Helen,Tacitus, Augustus, Catullus, Horace, Julia Domna and Pontius Pilate, what have the Romans EVER done for us?
You are correct. I reported from memory a risky venture.
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