History Quiz III (with rules)
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Pangur Bán
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Originally posted by Kentonio
Spot on of course Calgacus.
Your go.
(a) Who is alleged by (b) what Roman author to have said the following before battle:
Whenever I consider why we are fighting and how we have reached this crisis, I have a strong sense that this day of your splendid rally may mean the dawn of liberty for the whole of Britain. You have mustered to a man, and to a man you are free. There are no lands behind us, and even the sea is menaced by the Roman fleet. The clash of battle--the hero's glory-- has become the safest refuge for the coward. Battles against Rome have been lost and won before--but never without hope; we were always there in reserve. We, the choice flower of Britain, were treasured in her most secret places. Out of sight of subject shores, we kept even our eyes free from the defilement of tyranny. We, the last men on earth, the last of the free, have been shielded till today by the very remoteness and the seclusion for which we are famed. We have enjoyed the impressiveness of the unknown. But today the boundary of Britain is exposed; beyond us lies no nation, nothing but waves and rocks and the Romans, more deadly still than they, for you find in them an arrogance which no reasonable submission can elude. Brigands of the world, they have exhausted the land by their indiscriminate plunder and now they ransack the sea. The wealth of an enemy excites their cupidity, his poverty their lust of power. East and West have failed to glut their maw. They are unique in being as violently tempted to attack the poor as the wealthy. Robbery, butchery, rapine, with false names they call Empire; they make a wilderness and call it peace.
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Originally posted by gael
Calgacus famous Speech. (Picts Rule)
Tacitus is the roman author.
I'd hoped the obviousness of the answer might have made the question more difficult.
Your go, gael.
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Originally posted by gael
I'm useless at this, I just struck it lucky with that one.
Alrighty then, a bit off the wall, and probably too easy.
Who said this?
'He was a wise man who invented beer.'
Thats me out of the game.
It wasn't Oscar Wilde, was it?
napoleon526
Emperor
Ben Franklin?
Pangur Bán
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Plato 
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Q: Who was the late Roman writer, born at Antioch, whose grand historical narrative covered, amongst many other things, the reign of Julian the Apostate and the battle of Adrianople?
onejayhawk
Afflicted with reason
Would that be Ammianus?
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Pangur Bán
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Correct. Ammianus Marcellinus.
Your turn onejayhawk...
onejayhawk
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Blind Luck. Would you believe the name came up in church. Ammianus also wrote about the early Christian churh.
Change of pace, When Luther had to run from the Catholic Church, he was taken in by Frederick the Wise. What did Luther do with his time?
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Change of pace, When Luther had to run from the Catholic Church, he was taken in by Frederick the Wise. What did Luther do with his time?
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lord_byron_nz
Gimme some money
Didn't he translate the bible into different languages?
napoleon526
Emperor
I think he wrote a few hymns, as well as translating the bible from Latin into German, French, English, etc.
schmiddi
Prussian
As far as i know (and thats very little) he hided under the name "Junker Jörg" at "Burg Eisenach" and trranslated the bible from Latin into german.
onejayhawk
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He wrote the bulk of his German language treatises, incidentally establishing a formal, scholastic german language which he needed to write them in. However the translation of the Vulgate into German was a significant part of all of this, so :worshp: Lord Byron, your question.
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lord_byron_nz
Gimme some money
Cheers onejay.
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