Other than the aqueducts, what did the Romans ever do for us?
Well later on Italy beat the Muslims at the Battle of Lepanto that saved Europe from Islam in 1571 AD.
Romans - indoor plumbing, fresh water, a Senate at it’s very worst was less corrupt than our own - I would take that horse over Pelosi, roads, underwater cement.
Much of the US was founded by people in the UK. Most of the water works and roads were built by the Romans.
And they’re off and running at Aqueduct...
Olympia! Olympia!
Osirus, what has happened to your nose?
I’ve just returned from ROME!
I see, I SEE, three men upon an aquaduct singing...
Every body aught to have a maid!
Every body aught to have a working girl,
A serving girl, to putt her around the house!
I know they say that no question is a stupid question but really from an adult? Dude Rome gave us EVERYTHING!
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Attendee: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace - shut up!
Reg: There is not one of us who would not gladly suffer death to rid this country of the Romans once and for all.
Dissenter: Uh, well, one.
Reg: Oh, yeah, yeah, there’s one. But otherwise, we’re solid.
Well, there is that whole “Res Publica” thing. “That thing of the people.” We call it, the rule of law. Maybe a better tranlation would be “The Roman Constitution.”
Of course, we have abandoned it, for the rule of a demi-god - “What is legal for the god, is illegal for the people.”
See the complete set aside of the rule of law in the Chrysler bankruptcy, eg.
Terrific race, the Romans