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Vae Victus -- suffering to the conquered. Ironic that now I was the one suffering. Not anything as pedestrian as physical pain. Rather the cruel jab of impotent anger -- the hunger for revenge. I didn't care if I was in Heaven or Hell -- all I wanted was to kill my assassins. Sometimes you get what you wish for. The Necromancer Mortanius offered me a chance for vengeance. And like a fool, I jumped at his offer without considering the cost. Nothing is free, not even revenge.
Explanation: Mostly just memeing - while Romans could be immensely prickly about why they chose to go to war, they placed a high value on ius bellum - 'justified war' - wherein some form of legal and moral reasoning was employed before choosing to go to war. They were often very meticulous in examining minutiae in search of offense to give themselves an excuse to go to war, mind you - but it was generally things that we would recognize as, if not justifying war, at least justifying offense.
At the same time, it must be recognized that when a Roman could not find an excuse for a war he wanted, he made one - provocation was perfectly legitimate, and the hypocrisy of it generally ignored. If the barbarians did not wish to cause offense, they should not have responded in such a predictable way!
It this any different to today. Wars seem fo be fought with grievances and made up or overblown agressions to respond to.
>map of early rome
>map of peak rome
Look it just kind of happened we were defending ourselves and whooops haha
DEFENDING OURSELVES INTO THREE CONTINENTS
map of current rome
map of early US
map of peak US
"It'll happen to you"
- Scipio Aemilianus
no one does that
it’s like looking at maps of Israel
And that's why I always kill off the entire Legion in Fallout NV.
They're just posers anyway.
Posers or not they're still slaving fascists and thus must be terminated. Call me Hannibal Barca cause I'm at the gates and I brought Boone and 25 different guns with thousands of rounds of ammo for each.