05-02-2008, 11:11 PM
Quote:[ One should not label other societies in different times and places with our own cultural prejudices.......in other societies, soldiering was not disapproved of, as tends to be the case in our own, but rather honoured.
Exactly! What says the Roman soldier continued to wear his military identifiers after his service?
"...quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."
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a.k.a. Paul M.