wasnt gaul where Julius made his bones?

Also, I think there's a rather gigantically significant difference between saying that "Gaul should be divided into three parts" -- for purposes of Roman administration, and/or putting it under three different native chiefs to keep the parts fighting between themselves and thus not become as much of a threat to Rome's borders -- and saying that it all "has to be destroyed". (The Romans didn't like to gamble with things like that... And anything involving the French can become a crapshoot! :-)

AFAIK, no very prominent Roman ever said that about any place with enough emphasis to now quote it as if it were particularly significant -- with the obvious exception of Cicero ('t'was him, wannit?) and Carthage.

But, since I now realise what I only suspected before, namely that this is just another attempt at the typical French-baiting that war-mongering Americans seem to think is so clever these days, I must say I'm glad to see that what you're *actually* saying is, that "Three Frenchmen are better than no Frenchmen"! :-)

Post #86,783 by boxley 3/8/03 6:39:32 PM Reply	wasnt gaul where Julius made his bones? Dunno wether he actually said it. Just copied it because it sounded cool. His actual quote is "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres" will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org] 3 gauls is better than none
Post #86,829 by CRConrad 3/8/03 11:53:16 PM Reply	'Xackly - in Latin, it isn't "Gaul", but Gallia. Also, I think there's a rather gigantically significant difference between saying that "Gaul should be divided into three parts" -- for purposes of Roman administration, and/or putting it under three different native chiefs to keep the parts fighting between themselves and thus not become as much of a threat to Rome's borders -- and saying that it all "has to be destroyed". (The Romans didn't like to gamble with things like that... And anything involving the French can become a crapshoot! :-) AFAIK, no very prominent Roman ever said that about any place with enough emphasis to now quote it as if it were particularly significant -- with the obvious exception of Cicero ('t'was him, wannit?) and Carthage. But, since I now realise what I only suspected before, namely that this is just another attempt at the typical French-baiting that war-mongering Americans seem to think is so clever these days, I must say I'm glad to see that what you're actually saying is, that "Three Frenchmen are better than no Frenchmen"! :-) [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575\|Ashton Brown]
Post #86,930 by Ashton 3/9/03 4:40:50 PM Reply	{cackle} L'etat c'est Moi! Jacques Tati wherefore art thou?

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