Who is your favourite ancient Roman

[Goldstone1976]

Gotta be Catullus, Shirley? Dirty sod of a poet; he'll do for me.

 

[catfish]

Sendervictorius.

Appyanglorious.

 

[Gwylan]

Gotta be Catullus, Shirley? Dirty sod of a poet; he'll do for me.

This.I'd certainly have paid more attention to Latin at school if we'd studied Catullus

 

[Boys 9d]

Scipio who saved the Roman Republic by defeating Hannibal.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Voluptua

 

[Juan Albion]

This, or Plato for me. Gave birth to modern day vulcanology

Is this a different Plato to the ancient Greek, who, coincidentally, also helped give birth to modern day vulcanology?

 

[LargeHadronZugzwang]

Nobody famous. The foot soldier who asked for new underpants while he had to patrol windswept Hadrian's Wall. See Vindolanda Tablets for details.

 

[Guy Crouchback]

My vote goes to Scipio Africanus the Younger for destroying Carthage.

In the New Town which the Romans called Carthage, as in the parent cities of Phoenicia, the god who got things done bore the name Moloch, who was perhaps identical with the other deity whom we know as Baal, the Lord. The Romans did not at first quite know what to call him or what to make of him; they had to go back to the grossest myth of Greek or Roman Origins and compare him to Saturn devouring his children. But the worshippers of Moloch were not gross or primitive. They were members of a mature and polished civilization abounding in refinements and luxuries; they were probably far more civilized than the Romans. And Moloch was not a myth; or at any rate his meal was not a myth. These highly civilized people really met together to invoke the blessing of heaven on their empire by throwing hundreds of their infants into a large furnace. We can only realize the combination by imagining a number of Manchester merchants with chimneypot hats and mutton-chop whiskers, going to church every Sunday at eleven o'clock to see a baby roasted alive.

http://www.worldinvisible.com/library/chesterton/everlasting/part1c7.htm

 

[looney]

The Borgias.

 

[looney]

Erasmus

 

[Ken Livingstone Seagull]

All hail Pudenda and Speculum (for the marvelous medical insights).

 

[CheeseRolls]

Hadrian. The Alex Salmond of the Roman Empire.

Gay and knew how to organise a solid defensive wall - Hadrian it is then.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Pliny The Elder - ancient ancestor of former Albion player Nathan The Elder

 

[Comrade Sam]

Spartacus, one of the greatest men that ever lived. The Romans were a bunch of *******s, but if I had to pick a Roman citizen it would have to be one of the Graccus brothers!

 

[Barham's tash]

Is this a different Plato to the ancient Greek, who, coincidentally, also helped give birth to modern day vulcanology?

Ahem. Pliny not Plato. Too many of the amber nectars last night...

Pliny the elder who stayed stoically at his home in Pompeii watching the Vesuvius eruption and recording the minutiae of what happened during that fateful day.

 

[glasfryn]

Flavius Valerius Marcian

 

[red star portslade]

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[Bwian]

Bwian, he was woeman, yer know.

Another vote for Bwian

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Pontius Pilate he knew how to make a decision.

Favourite Roman God, Bacchus, invented wine.
Or Vesta, creator of matches.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Didn't Tribune Mesada used to post on here?