Vivat Imperium Romanum!

[exchemist]

Another user got the wrong end of the stick and accused us of wanting to resurrect Rome.

So 3 rum and cokes in, I thought why not.

Rum and coke? In Scotland?!

 

[Rival]

βάρβαροι

But then that wouldn't fit with the Roman empire of course.

It would as Greek was the lingua franca

 

[Rival]

Rum and coke? In Scotland?!

I'm staying down here

 

[Estro Felino]

Vivat barbari.

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Nos hic primum, et erit hic ultimum.

An anecdote about the words German and Germany.
Ancient Romans used to call all the territories beyond the rivers Rhine and Danube Germania.
And all the populations were commonly known as Germani.
But the Ancient Romans knew that by the term Germani they meant countless populations speaking different Germanic languages, such as Burgundi, Alemanni, Gothi, Saxones, Angli, Teutones (and many others).

So...in Italian we still call that land Germania.
But as for the population and the language, we latinized the term deutsch (thiotiscum) because it's a different language than Gothic or Langobard.

 

[Stevicus]

I was thinking, wouldn't the Roman Empire be more analogous to NATO than the EU?

 

[RestlessSoul]

This my flag.

I am a Roman Citizen.

My main dream in life is the resurrection of the SPQR under an Augustus.

Long live the EU!

We need to bring back Latin in place of barbarous languages like English.

Btw you pronounce vivat with a w, barbarorum.

Welease Wodewick...

 

[Stevicus]

Welease Wodewick...

 

[exchemist]

I'm staying down here

Eh? Hogmanay not going ahead then?

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I'm going to spend New Year's Eve recovering from getting my left eye zapped with a laser. Just seen the doc, who says I've got a tear in the retina. So I'm due to get done at 11am tomorrow, at St George's, Tooting. Routine, but urgent and I've no doubt I'll feel a bit sore. Hope I'm allowed to drink, though. There's a half bottle of Sauternes waiting.

 

[Rival]

Eh? Hogmanay not going ahead then?

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I'm going to spend New Year's Eve recovering from getting my left eye zapped with a laser. Just seen the doc, who says I've got a tear in the retina. So I'm due to get done at 11am tomorrow, at St George's, Tooting. Routine, but urgent and I've no doubt I'll feel a bit sore. Hope I'm allowed to drink, though. There's a half bottle of Sauternes waiting.

Yeah, hopefully we can make up for it afterwards.

I'm sorry to hear that I'm glad it's routine tho and nothing too heavy.

 

[syo]

Does this mean we throw abrahamics to the lions?

 

[Rival]

Does this mean we throw abrahamics to the lions?

No, this is the Christian Roman Empire. The longest lasting one.

 

[syo]

No, this is the Christian Roman Empire. The longest lasting one.

DISGUSTING!

 

[Secret Chief]

This my flag.

I am a Roman Citizen.

My main dream in life is the resurrection of the SPQR under an Augustus.

Long live the EU!

We need to bring back Latin in place of barbarous languages like English.

Btw you pronounce vivat with a w, barbarorum.

 

[The Hammer]

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We can call it... the European Union...

 

[Sedim Haba]

No, this is the Christian Roman Empire. The longest lasting one.

Only *some* abrahamics, then...

 

[danieldemol]

We ask for voluntary union to an array of countries joined by shared values solidly based in Christianity. If this offends you, well, be offended.

I believe it would be better if there were voluntary union of an array of countries joined by shared values solidly based in reason and compassion than Christianity.

In my opinion.

 

[danieldemol]

Thank you Rival, very well said!!

For the unitiated, Rival's witty thread is referring back to mine:

Will empire return?

And a post by @danieldemol which misrepresents my position: Is Catholicism true and...

Mainly because of what I perceive as the call of a certain Catholic and his accomplice to call for the resurrection of the Roman empire.​

I believe that if it was a misrepresentation you'd have easily managed to answer these questions;

Post #32 Will empire return?

In my opinion.

 

[RestlessSoul]

No, this is the Christian Roman Empire. The longest lasting one.

Was there a Christian Roman Empire? If you mean the Holy Roman Empire, it was said of that, by Gibbon I think, that it was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

 

[Rival]

Was there a Christian Roman Empire? If you mean the Holy Roman Empire, it was said of that, by Gibbon I think, that it was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Eastern Roman Empire lasted until the 15th c.

 

[RestlessSoul]

Eastern Roman Empire lasted until the 15th c.

The empire whose capital was Constantinople?