Salvete sodales,
This is the first day on which candidates may announce their candidacy and as such, I use this opportunity to announce mine for consul.
I am one of the co-founders of Societas Via Romana and was censor from its foundation until December 2002. As a censor I've plagued hundreds of mailboxes with welcome messages and even more with promotional e-mail. I designed the Greek personality, Roman emperor and Roman writer tests and saw to the correctness of the names of the members. You can thank me that right now we do not have a Quintus Shayalus Bubonis among our members
. I also wrote numerous legal or semi-legal articles.
Then, this year I have been aedilis and reorganised much of the site. Although I have been fairly inactive for the last two months due to my college activities I do believe I made a substantial contribution to the growth of the site by bringing back other languages, making the lay-out clearer to navigate and correcting numerous errors or broken links. I also thought out the ludi circenses and have enjoyed writing these reports or entertaining our sodales with them.
I believe that my experience makes me fit to be consul. But a candidate for consul also needs to have ideas. I hope to contribute to SVR's growth by continuing the legal work by the current praetores and consul Piscinus but I would also like to make SVR more known in the "real world" through all means possible. Attracting and activating members will be my #1 priority.
I hope that you will all at least consider voting for me, even if I have unmercifully criticised your use of Latin or made another pedantic remark. I am actually a kind and considerate person.
Valete optime!
Gn. Dionysius Draco Invictus
Gn. Dionysius Draco Invictus