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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.

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Memes must be Rome-related, not just the title. It can be about Rome, or using Roman aesthetics, or both, but the meme itself needs to have Roman themes.
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Let an old baldy rest his tired ass, for the gods' sake! (infosec.pub)

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[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What cracks me up is the part where Cesar was appointed to a made up position as a young man, allowing him to wear a special crown and then everyone has to rise whenever he enters a room. Not very precise recollection, I reckon

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As a young man, Caesar earned the Civic Crown - a military decoration for saving another citizen's life in battle.

However, it was only permissible to wear it on certain occasions - after becoming dictator near the end of his life, Caesar received permission to wear it all the time, partly because of his vanity, being upset over having recently starting going bald and wanting to cover it up.

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks for clearing that up