even the original italy had ruthless
‘nobody could have possible expected this’
why did everyone give Italy a gun
eh I guess Italy just has a gun now
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rate my Champs bio
NATIONALITY: American
STARTED PLAYING MAFIA (YEAR): 2019
HAVE PLAYED MAFIA ON THE FOLLOWING SITES: Throne of Lies, Chief Delphi, Mafia Colosseum, Mafia Universe, Mafia 451, MafiaScum
BIO:
Rather than giving any useful information about my playstyle, I’m going to give you a mildly interesting history fact.
In his commentary on the Aeneid, the Roman historian Maurus Servius Honoratus describes how the traditions of Rome adapted as Rome began to grow and expand. One such tradition involved a symbolic ritual, performed when one declared war on one’s enemies, which involved hurling a spear into their territory. This posed a problem when they began to go to war against enemies from which they were separated by water. According to Servius’s account, they resolved this by forcing a captured enemy soldier to buy a local, Italian plot of land, then hurled a spear into that plot of land.
(The History major in me feels obligated to inform you that Servius was writing centuries later, and that just because he claims that it happened doesn’t mean he was correct.)
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is the grand Idea thread turn into a game
because I saw Geyde? submit a SFoL grand idea thread
there is a grand idea game?
sounds wack
is the purge in it
the one that rerolls everyone else’s classes
this is a serious question
liking my post does not give me useful info on the quality of this Champs bio
We obviously appreciate it because we know you are a nerd
maybe mention how you have gained a repuatation as this forum’s resident nerd
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You gave a historical fact
I think it would be funny if you pretended it was a historical fact but it was actually a lie anyway
nah It should be real
it’s funnier that way IMO
I think the bio is great but it might need to be a little more joke-explainy for the ppl who don’t know arete
I’m not going to lie to people about historical facts, that would defeat the point
(The relevant passage is Ad Aeneid 9.52, the Latin text is:
PRINCIPIUM PUGNAE hoc de Romana sollemnitate traectum est. cum enim volebant bellum indicere, pater patratus, hoc est princeps fetialium, proficiscebatur ad hostium fines, et praefatus quadam sollemnia, clara voce dicebat se bellum indicere propter certas causas, aut quia socias laeserant aut quia nec abrepta animalia nec obnoxios redderent. et haec clarigatio dicebatur a claritate vocis. post quam clarigationem hasta in eorum fines missa indicabatur iam pugnae principium. [post tertium autem et tricesimum diem quam res repetissent ab hostibus, fetiales hastam mittebant. denique cum Pyrrhi temporibus adversum transmarinum hostem bellum Romani gesturi essent nec invenirent locum, ubi hanc sollemnitatem per fetiales indicendi belli celebrarent, dederunt operam, ut unus de Pyrrhi militibus caperetur, quem fecerunt in circo Flaminio locum emere, ut quasi in hostili loco ius belli indicendi implerent.]
and the translation we’re using it translates it as the following (I have not double-checked for accuracy in translation):
When they wanted to declare war, the pater patratus, that is, the chief of the fetials, would set out for the enemy’s border. There he would speak certain solemn pronouncements, saying in a clear voice that the Romans were declaring war for specific reasons, or because they had harmed allies of Rome, or because they had not returned animals they had stolen or captives they had seized. This is called the clarigatio, from the claritas of his voice. After the clarigatio, a spear is hurled into the enemy’s territory, to indicate the commencement of hostilities. [The fetials throw the spear at any time after the thirty-third day from the one on which they demanded restitution. Finally, when in the time of Pyrrhus the Romans were about to wage war against a transmarinum hostem, an enemy across the sea and could not find a place, where they might perform through the fetials this ritual for declaring war, they compelled one of Pyrrhus’ soldiers, a captive, to buy a plot of land near the circus Flaminius, so that they might fulfill the law of declaring war quasi in hostili loco, as if in foreign territory.]
No, I don’t know why he’s talking about this in what was supposed to be a commentary on the Aeneid)
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