March 28, 2011
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I’m only semi-surprised that the Daily Mail has fallen for this semi-regular silliness, inter alia: The first trains, in the 19th century, were made to the same width as horse-drawn wagons, which were, in turn, built to fit in the ruts left in the roads by the chariots of the Roman invaders two millennia ago.…
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Adrian Murdoch’s series continues with a guy who had issues with the Dacians: #13 Trajan: Emperors of Rome
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ante diem v kalendas apriles 37 A.D. — arrival of Gaius (Caligula) in Rome 193 A.D. — murder of the emperor Pertinax; recognition of Didius Julianus as Augustus 364 A.D. — elevation of Valens to the rank of Augustus … in the early Church, this was one of the days claimed as the day of…
rogue classicism 