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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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"I'm going to give you a proscription; if you're still alive, send me a message in the morning so I can issue another" (lemmy.world)
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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Explanation: The bust pictured is of the Roman ultraconservative dictator Sulla, who sided with the Senate against the democratic elements of the Roman Republic. Sulla was famous for his 'proscriptions', wherein his enemies and inconvenient folks who held wealth he wanted to seize were put on a list mandating everyone who could to do them harm without legal censure, and promising rewards for those who betrayed or killed them so Sulla could seize their property.

"Proscription" sounds like "prescription", like a doctor prescribing medicine.

That's it. That's the extent of the joke.