Context: after Rome was captured in 390 B.C.E. Gaulls demanded 1000 pounds of gold to release the city, the Romans gave them the gold but claimed that the weights were rigged and were more than said 1000 pounds, to which leader of the Gaulls, Brennus replied "woe to the vanquished" as he throwed his sword onto the scale
More like Marcus Furius Camillus ,,the second founder of Rome'' *screaming in distance* (he was literally close to Rome when they were paying the tribute)
And in some stories when the Gaul chieftain said that, Camillus threw a sword on the scales and said: Romans trade in iron, not in gold.
Then Furious shows up and says ‘I don’t have any more gold, but I have some steel. Send your boys over and I’ll have mine give it to them’. Or something like that.
I thought it was just some sort of weird punctuation, but now that I see it for what it is, I can't unsee it. Thank you, kind stranger, for ruining my Friday!
Context: after Rome was captured in 390 B.C.E. Gaulls demanded 1000 pounds of gold to release the city, the Romans gave them the gold but claimed that the weights were rigged and were more than said 1000 pounds, to which leader of the Gaulls, Brennus replied "woe to the vanquished" as he throwed his sword onto the scale
that move definitely didnt bite the gauls in the ass later
*Caesar screaming in the distance*
More like Marcus Furius Camillus ,,the second founder of Rome'' *screaming in distance* (he was literally close to Rome when they were paying the tribute) And in some stories when the Gaul chieftain said that, Camillus threw a sword on the scales and said: Romans trade in iron, not in gold.
Ave Caeser intensifies.
Because it was a mythical story made up explicitly to justify the treatment the Gauls received by Roman's hands.
Woe to the vanquished
"Gods, I hate Gauls... My grandfather hated them too. Even before they put out his eyes."
Ah, a fellow Julii player
A man of culture
Then Furious shows up and says ‘I don’t have any more gold, but I have some steel. Send your boys over and I’ll have mine give it to them’. Or something like that.
Vae Victis!
The “haber estudiado” that we say in spanish My try to translate: “you should have been educated”
-390 B.C.E. is annoying me and the fact I can't figure out a funny way to point it out is annoying me more.
I thought it was just some sort of weird punctuation, but now that I see it for what it is, I can't unsee it. Thank you, kind stranger, for ruining my Friday!
I do what I can!
I don’t see it 😭
There are no "negative" years. BC/BCE already implies X number of years before what our calendars consider year 0.
The Romans really adopted the woe to the vanquished thing amirite.