>Tarchetius, king of the Albans, who was most lawless and cruel, was visited with a strange phantom in his house, namely, a phallus rising out of the hearth and remaining there many days. Now there was an oracle of Tethys in Tuscany, from which there was brought to Tarchetius a response that a virgin must have intercourse with this phantom, and she should bear a son most illustrious for his valour, and of surpassing good fortune and strength. Tarchetius, accordingly, told the prophecy to one of his daughters, and bade her consort with the phantom
I love it when /x/ shit makes an appearance in recorded history. Like that one river monster in Africa the Romans killed during the Second Punic War.
>>24731458ai slop
>>24731648That was during the first Punic war
>>24732127The fate of all the public domain now
>>24732202This, it was literally just a snake.Although archimedes sun laser is x-tier
>>24731648>>24733001The giant snake is known Roman propaganda trying to justify Regulus' army being wiped out at Bagradas.(The storms which allegedly sunkone gazillion Roman ships might have been greatly exaggerated to justify sea losses as well) Archimedes' sun laser was real, mythbusters said so. >B...but why wasn't it used in any other battle in all of recorded history?Because it failed duh
>>24733022>(The storms which allegedly sunkone gazillion Roman ships might have been greatly exaggerated to justify sea losses as well)No they weren't. The Roman ships were built like shit using unseasoned timber and the Roman navigators were idiots because they'd never done this kind of thing before. This is why Aderhbal fucked up Pulcher so easily at Drepana - or, do you REALLY think it was because of the fucking chickens?
Which edition of Parallel Lives should I go for?
>>24733798Whichever volumes you can finish since the complete parallel lives is long
