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Rough Roman Memes

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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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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

NOTE: While there were widely-recognized iconographies for representations of imperial power (the eagle, Jupiter's thunderbolt, SPQR), there was no standardized flag. as we would recognize the concept, for the Roman Empire.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

No standardised flag makes this equally correct.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You monster, I can't believe you would just chop an eagle's toes off like that

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's where the flavour is.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The true Roman way: cooking with weird bodyparts from exotic animals.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Flamingo tongue, anyone?

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's an old saying in Gallia. I know it's in Dalmatia, probably in Gallia: Si vis bellum, para bellum