talonschild
Drive-By NESer
Well, Google Translate is pretty faithful for Latin-to-English. It's just the other way round that requires some patience and experience.
I'm not going to jump around Google translate to read things. If others want me to read something on the forum, they can use English (or Hebrew, but then I will be the only one to understand...). Otherwise I will just assume I was not meant to readWell, Google Translate is pretty faithful for Latin-to-English. It's just the other way round that requires some patience and experience.
It won't handle complicated things like the active periphrastic well, IIRC. And things like that are commonly found in more official sounding Latin. However, I can usually provide a translation if we need it.talonschild said:Well, Google Translate is pretty faithful for Latin-to-English. It's just the other way round that requires some patience and experience.
This caesar is crazier than barbarians.
Admittedly I may have messed up on the genitive though. My latin's pretty rusty.
How about the traditional roman battle cry?
"Iuppiter Optimus Maximus resistere atque iterare pugnam iubet"
This caesar is crazier than barbarians.
Another entry to this :
Marius Blandinus Servius
a.k.a. The charming one
The Servius family has recently risen to power, according to many, by their sheer wealth and insider connections. The traditional business of the family deals in selling of foreing commodities, mostly fine men and women to serve the Roman civil society, slaves as well as gladiators. Through their many connections and their own brand of military prowess, they have managed to quell (mostly which people say interfere) many a conflict. These prisoners are often captured and brought back to the mainland and then sold off to the slave market. Such operations, even though neither exactly legal nor official, have been managed to be kept quiet, by "gifting" handsome pouches of gold coins to the port officials as well as the well connected senators. After all, Roman Elites needed slaves and the Servius Family has been a major source of all such needs. Other needs of the Roman elites, were the gladiators, who were needed to fight and die for the entertainment for the citizens. The family's specialization were the Hoplomachus, the ones that fought with a short sword, the hoplon and a small sheild. The eastern neighbors from the regions of Epirus and Dalmatia, prooved to be easy pickings.
Home Town : Tarentum.
Current Location : Rome
3) Spend the Republican Treasury on whatever projects, including recruiting legions. Spending the Republican Treasury is done in Bills, and not in orders - (the Republic itself doesn't do orders, as its armies are under the control of Generals and its spending is done by bill). The Republic may also grant its funds on Senators to do with as they will, or alternatively it may specifically purchase buildings in provinces. It may also spend the treasury on improvements within Rome.
Query : one single senator leading his legions is not really expected to dominate an entire area isnt it ? by the way, how big can the armies get ?