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*Mencius has rounded up his servants to prepare a libation of cream soda in honor of this blessed day* GET ON WITH IT, UNWORTHY SERVANTS, OR I WILL HAVE YOUR HEADS AND THOSE OF YOUR HOUSEHOLDS, TOO (expect for the two Liao girls, who wil make fine concubines :twisted: :wink: ) Again,...

...and almost going to jail because one former-gangbanger pupil of mine spray-painted 'SPQR' on the side of a school building and the police thought they knew just who might have put him up to it. LMAO at that one, mi Mari. :shock: :lol: Even if it wasn't funny at the time, which ...

I would like to use this topic to announce a brief break before the studies kick in again (although I just stopped a week ago :roll: ) So, I will be absent from tomorrow till Sunday evening. I am going to Düsseldorf for a martial art seminar. I was personally invited to go, so I thought I'd give ...

Caldvs wrote:
Salve Mince!

Did you just call me Mince, as in mince meat

Haven't had that one thrown at me before

btw, the vocative case of Mencius is Menci, not Mence as I have seen it in another post... Just trying to be helpful. Just once...

Vale bene!

tha Menc

Salve, Calde

You should check out the ludi pages on the site... There you will find some background on factiones, the rules, how to enter the arena and be subsequently beaten by my champion Morgareth, or, worse, Damnator...

Good luck, and choose your tactics wisely, my friend...

Publius Dionysius Mus wrote:
But as you know, my friend, I am neither a musical critic nor musically talented...

You bet I know Yes, I remember suffering your musical 'talent' We were all in utter before laughing our asses off...

One cannot be too talented, amice bon...

Mi Tergeste, I'd be happy to come by for a drink, amigo, especially now the child has come into this world... Many congrats to you and your family. :D But it won't be for any time soon, for I have these exams to retake, Donnerwetter :evil: Have a drink anyways, and think positive for me...

dude.... :? Your post is of rather contradictory nature... sigh :wink: You say that you wouldn't put the label Roman music on it, and then you state that it's the closest you can get to Roman music. Hence my :?: ... How do you know that???? Sayonara gozaimasu, tomodachi. Watashi wa ka...

Salve, amice mi. A book eh? Interesting angle you are taking.

Romans pitted against the so called barbarian horsemen, the Mongols? They would be annihilated surely...

Many greetings from a Mongol fanatic

Good luck with writing!

Menc

Salve mi Mari, salvete omnes As for me, I am currently dividing my time between a holiday job and study. It is a demanding job, and I have been assigned to early duty for the whole month, which means I have to get up at 4.40 am... When I get home at about 3pm, I hit the shower and then try to wor...

* Shakespeare comes to mind... Mus, O Mus, where arth thou?* Ja waar zit Mus... De mens heeft het soms nogal druk, hoewel hij dat zoals steeds poogt te combineren met zijn motto 'festina lente'. Maar als zijn examens erop zitten, zal hij wel opduiken... Morgen heeft hij zijn laatste. Ik maand...

As for me, there is a possibility of re-exams... I'll be sure to fill you in on that when I have certainty.

Greetings,

Salvete iterum, mi Tergeste. I can come up with the following. Jade in Chinese thought was and still is reputed to having magical potencies. It could prolong life if I recall correctly. Being the most sacred stone, it is plausible that it is the king of stones, sort of. Hence the character for ki...

There is an intersting link with Chinese religion here. In ancient times, the king was also the pontifex, if you will. And indeed, I follow Atticus' explanation about 'pons facere', because the Chinese character for king (which is an E with the vertical in the middle) expresses precisely that: th...

Salve, mi Locate.

Let me know what you think of your brother's book, will ya. I have seen it in a bookstore once, but it seemed heavy reading to me.

Vale optime.

Menc

A dazzling piece o' work, amice bon...

And a humourous tale, too.

In amicitia,

Menc

Brot und Spiele!

It would be nice to have such a meeting. As to where and when, I await further reactions.

Cura ut valeas

Salvete omnes! I searched for the information that was given by mi Mari, but alas I could not find Li-jien (supposedly the ancient chinese translation of Rome) or any reference to that warlord, Yun Shen. I also searched in my historical atlas for a town called Li Jien, but without the characters,...

Salve, mi Mari et alii I must say that I share in Marius' scepticism. But I will adress it from the Chinese point of view, since their presence was spoken of as well. Like Marius, I find it hard to believe that, when artifacts are found, the assumption that whoever made them, must have been t...

Salve Aelia, Thanks for your opninion on the book. I have read it in the meantime, while I was supposedly studying in the library :roll: ... I, too, liked the book, for it was easygoing and hard to put aside. I don't know if I have said it before, so... a late welcome to the Societas! But I a...