[OOC] The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 1 (Completed)

[Hank]

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Akavir delenda est

@Peik

O tempora, o mores!

Quo usque tandem abutere, Kamali, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia?

[Peik]

<Snipped quote by Peik>

O tempora, o mores!

Quo usque tandem abutere, Kamali, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia?

@Hank

[pedicabo intensifies]

[Frizan]

I really ought to brush up on my Latin. That shit comes and goes since it's kind of a dead language that no one uses outside of archaic quotes and referencing a certain movie.

[Hank]

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[pedicabo intensifies]

@Peik

You're an animal.

[Peik]

I really ought to brush up on my Latin. That shit comes and goes since it's kind of a dead language that no one uses outside of archaic quotes and referencing a certain movie.

@Frizan

LIBERATE TUTEMET?

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You're an animal.

@Hank

Hey, that and delenda is all I know of Latin.

[Hank]

Hey, that and delenda is all I know of Latin.

@Peik

Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo is the opening line of one of Catullus' poems. See if you can find an English translation; it's hilarious.

[ButtsnBalls]

Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo

@Hank

Well, that was an enlightening line.

[Dervish]

Uhh... je me ole bitte blyat hokayday honk honk?

I'm totally multilingual.

[Frizan]

I've actually read very little of Ancient Roman literary works. Mostly Aeneid, which my Latin class translated their graduating year. I do however have a collection of letters from Quintus T. Cicero to his brother Marcus, with side-to-side Latin to English translations. The letters detail Quintus' advice on winning an election in the Ancient Roman state. It's a good read actually and most of his advice rings true today.

[Peik]

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Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo is the opening line of one of Catullus' poems. See if you can find an English translation; it's hilarious.

@Hank

Oh, I know, I know. I don't say anything I don't know the meaning of. Used to read up on Pompeii grafitti translations, they were pretty fun. Those and pedicabo kind of give you an insight into Roman society.

[Hank]

I've actually read very little of Ancient Roman literary works. Mostly Aeneid, which my Latin class translated their graduating year. I do however have a collection of letters from Quintus T. Cicero to his brother Marcus, with side-to-side Latin to English translations. The letters detail Quintus' advice on winning an election in the Ancient Roman state. It's a good read actually and most of his advice rings true today.

@Frizan

If you're interested in the life of Marcus Cicero and the later years of the Roman Republic in general, you could read his speeches and his letters to Atticus, of course, or his 'published' books (like De Republica), but I recommend a novel called Imperium and its sequels by George Harris for a more relaxed and entertaining ride. It's fantastic historical fiction that takes relatively little artistic liberty and adheres strictly to everything we know to be true about his life, only filling in the gaps with (believable) fiction where necessary.

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Oh, I know, I know. I don't say anything I don't know the meaning of. Used to read up on Pompeii grafitti translations, they were pretty fun. Those and pedicabo kind of give you an insight into Roman society.

@Peik

Ah, righto, sorry. As you were.

[Frizan]

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If you're interested in the life of Marcus Cicero and the later years of the Roman Republic in general, you could read his speeches and his letters to Atticus, of course, or his 'published' books (like De Republica), but I recommend a novel called Imperium and its sequels by George Harris for a more relaxed and entertaining ride. It's fantastic historical fiction that takes relatively little artistic liberty and adheres strictly to everything we know to be true about his life, only filling in the gaps with (believable) fiction where necessary.

@Hank

I'll have to check those out. My book reccomendation is Swords Against The Senate, by Erik Hildinger. The book goes through all the fun little skirmishes, wars, and political mudslinging that led to the Republic getting all sorts of fucked up, covering most everything before Caesar enters the picture and tries to establish some semblance of order again through civil war and establishing a Triumvirate. The book goes into great detail about the Roman army as well.

[Hank]

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I'll have to check those out. My book reccomendation is Swords Against The Senate, by Erik Hildinger. The book goes through all the fun little skirmishes, wars, and political mudslinging that led to the Republic getting all sorts of fucked up, covering most everything before Caesar enters the picture and tries to establish some semblance of order again through civil war and establishing a Triumvirate. The book goes into great detail about the Roman army as well.

@Frizan

Haha, see, Imperium covers the same period from the opposite point of view: Caesar is depicted as a ruthlessly ambitious megalomaniac that brings about the fall of the Republic, because that's what Cicero thought of him. Fascinating stuff.

[Haeo]

Ah, the classics. Few know how to insult so well these days.

[MacabreFox]

Ah, the classics. Few know how to insult so well these days.

@Haeo

I have other ideas that are considered classics, then again I do enjoy historical fiction, albeit as long as it's accurate in so way shape or form.

I'm currently reading, Sir Thomas Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur, a modernized re-telling however so it's not in old English. But I also have, Chaucer's Canterybury Tales, and The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle. I do enjoy other literature classics, such as Candide or Optimism by Voltaire, Dante's Inferno by Dante Aligheri, and of course Shakespeare. Now finding a man that enjoys these literature tastes is rather more difficult, or anyone in general.

[Haeo]

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I have other ideas that are considered classics, then again I do enjoy historical fiction, albeit as long as it's accurate in so way shape or form.

I'm currently reading, Sir Thomas Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur, a modernized re-telling however so it's not in old English. But I also have, Chaucer's Canterybury Tales, and The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle. I do enjoy other literature classics, such as Candide or Optimism by Voltaire, Dante's Inferno by Dante Aligheri, and of course Shakespeare. Now finding a man that enjoys these literature tastes is rather more difficult, or anyone in general.

@MacabreFox

Unfortunately, my repertoire is somewhat more limited. Dante's Inferno was indeed worthy. And, though I was excessively instructed in his works to the point of despising him, Shakespeare had great skill. I have found little time for reading since the advent of parenthood.

[Frizan]

I've read The Art of War and a bit of The Prince, along with whatever else I had to read for my English classes. If I had more of such books I'd read them, but right now I'm more focused on scientific works. I'm hoping to get The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku and A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking soon.

[Hank]

The most highbrow literature I've read would probably be stuff like Tolstoy's War and Peace and, in my own language, De Aanslag (The Attack) by Mulisch.

[Haeo]

Have any of you read any of the novels of Balzac? I got lucky at a library book sale in college. They had well over a dozen of his books with uncut pages. I only had the money for 11.

[Leidenschaft]

As long as we're still measuring our literary penises, I'm working on some Nietzsche novels, the Book of Five Rings and On Killing. Away from contemporary literature, I just got the complete Conan collection by Robert E Howard.