04-10-2008, 11:01 PM
Quote:Vortigern Studies:2y9yt7ja Wrote:I guess life today is not that hard or cheap as it was back then.Try living on a sink estate in the UK for a couple of years, you may change your views about that.
Debt slavery? Slavery, period? Child mortality of 70%? Can a landlord have you flogged to death? Can just about any desease kill you? Are there barbarians just waiting to raid your town?
No doubt estates are rough, but not like it was during the industrial revolution, let alone how it was during Roman times, no.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)