Subject:	Official Announcement of the Reinstatement of the Gen Vedia
From:	"D. Iunius Palladius" amcgrath@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 01:22:04 -0500 (EST)

Salvete Cives! This is to confirm officially what many of you know already
or have heard as rumor. The gens Vedia, at the request of its
paterfamilias Flavius Vedius Germanicus, a Founder of Nova Roma and former
Consul, Censor and Senator (among other positions) has been reinstated as
a Patrician gens of Nova Roma. Welcome back Germanicus!


Valete,

Decius Iunius Palladius

Censor of Nova Roma


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Seneca


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Subject:	subscription of The Eagle...
From:	"Antonio M. R. C. Grilo" amg@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:50:02 -0000

Salvete!

Can I subscribe through email? I.e. can I send an email with the data
present in the subscription form?

Vale!

Antonius Gryllus Graecus
(Praetor ad Lusitaniam Provinciam)

Subject:	Website is down again...
From:	"Antonio M. R. C. Grilo" amg@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:25:04 -0000

Salvete!

Nova Roma Website is down again... =(

Valete!

Antonius Gryllus Graecus

Subject:	Re: Official Announcement of the Reinstatement of the Gen Vedia
From:	"Antonio M. R. C. Grilo" amg@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:37:54 -0000

Salve Germanici!

Wellcome back amicus!

Vale!

Antonius Gryllus Graecus
(Praetor ad Lusitaniam Provinciam)

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From: Ira Adams iadams@--------
To: <a href="mailto:novaroma@--------" >novaroma@--------</a> <a href="mailto:novaroma@--------" >novaroma@--------</a>
Date: Monday, October 26, 1998 12:30 PM
Subject: [novaroma] Re: Official Announcement of the Reinstatement of the
Gen Vedia


>From: Ira Adams iadams@--------
>
>>Salvete Cives! This is to confirm officially what many of you know already
>>or have heard as rumor. The gens Vedia, at the request of its
>>paterfamilias Flavius Vedius Germanicus, a Founder of Nova Roma and former
>>Consul, Censor and Senator (among other positions) has been reinstated as
>>a Patrician gens of Nova Roma. Welcome back Germanicus!
>>
>>
>>Valete,
>>
>>Decius Iunius Palladius
>>
>>Censor of Nova Roma
>
>How does one say "Bravo!" in Latin?
>
>L. Sergius Aust.
>
>
>id quod circumiret, circumveniat.
>
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Subject:	Re: subscription of The Eagle...
From:	missmoon@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:23:26 -0500

Antonio M. R. C. Grilo wrote:

> From: "Antonio M. R. C. Grilo" amg@--------
>
> Salvete!
>
> Can I subscribe through email? I.e. can I send an email with the data
> present in the subscription form?
>
> Vale!

I guess you could -- but we need a check, since we can't take credit cards!

Technology falls short again, due to human shortcomings!

-- Flavia Claudia

Subject:	Changed URL of Lusitania Webpage...
From:	"Antonio M. R. C. Grilo" amg@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 14:55:25 -0000

Salvete omnes!

Due to server administration problems, the Lusitania Web page was
permanently moved to:

<a href="http://gama.inesc.pt/Lusitania" target="_top" >http://gama.inesc.pt/Lusitania</a>

Valete!

Antonius Gryllus Graecus
(Praetor ad Lusitaniam Provinciam)

Subject:	Ni-Ni Tory
From:	amethystcrystallight@--------)
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:22:53 -0600

Salve --

I am now on a quest to find some stories I can read the children with a
Roman theme (something explaining holidays like the Saturnalia perhaps,
or maybe funny stories about the Gods and their antics). Would anyone
know where I could find any? Do they even exist?

Also, there was a discussion about Roman music a while back. What's it
like? Is it a specality item (in other words, impossible to find IRL)?

Fara Med Godanum! -- Crys and Terry and Lapis Stone (due late Feb.)
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Subject:	Re: Ni-Ni Tory
From:	"Antonio M. R. C. Grilo" amg@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:43:09 -0000

Salve!

It was me who initiated the discussion on ancient Greek/Roman music.
I've recently bought a record form Amiata Records, called:
Music from ancient Rome - Vol. I, by SYNAULIA.
SYNAULIA is a musical consort dedicated to music history and archeology. You
can find it on Music Boulevard: www.musicboulevard.com I think... Take a
look in the Classical music section.

I have other CDs with Greek music. Some are a little hard for a child to
like it, but others really correspond to our stereotype of pagan religious
and banquet music. Nevertheless these records are harder to find in the US.
I can give you the references if you want.

Vale!

Antonius Gryllus Graecus
(Praetor ad Lusitaniam Provinciam)

-----Original Message-----
From: Amethyst C Light amethystcrystallight@--------
To: <a href="mailto:novaroma@--------" >novaroma@--------</a> <a href="mailto:novaroma@--------" >novaroma@--------</a>
Date: Monday, October 26, 1998 3:30 PM
Subject: [novaroma] Ni-Ni Tory


>From: amethystcrystallight@-------- (Amethyst C Light)
>
>Salve --
>
>I am now on a quest to find some stories I can read the children with a
>Roman theme (something explaining holidays like the Saturnalia perhaps,
>or maybe funny stories about the Gods and their antics). Would anyone
>know where I could find any? Do they even exist?
>
>Also, there was a discussion about Roman music a while back. What's it
>like? Is it a specality item (in other words, impossible to find IRL)?
>
>Fara Med Godanum! -- Crys and Terry and Lapis Stone (due late Feb.)
><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
>Amethystia Ivnia Crystallina and Primus Ivnia Terrelina
>amethystcrystallight@--------
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Subject:	Re: Ni-Ni Tory
From:	missmoon@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:58:45 -0500

Amethyst C Light wrote:

> From: amethystcrystallight@-------- (Amethyst C Light)
>
> Salve --
>
> I am now on a quest to find some stories I can read the children with a
> Roman theme (something explaining holidays like the Saturnalia perhaps,
> or maybe funny stories about the Gods and their antics). Would anyone
> know where I could find any? Do they even exist?

YES!!! Our own Pythia has stories! She hasn't published them anywhere but in
the Eagle yet,(we're working on that!) but I bet she'd share them with you!
they're wonderful!

-- Flavia Claudia

Subject:	Re: Ni-Ni Tory
From:	amethystcrystallight@--------)
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:42:30 -0600

On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:43:09 -0000 "Antonio M. R. C. Grilo"
amg@-------- writes:
>From: "Antonio M. R. C. Grilo" amg@--------
>
>Salve!
>
>It was me who initiated the discussion on ancient Greek/Roman music.
>I've recently bought a record form Amiata Records, called:
>Music from ancient Rome - Vol. I, by SYNAULIA.
>SYNAULIA is a musical consort dedicated to music history and
>archeology. You
>can find it on Music Boulevard: www.musicboulevard.com I think... Take
>a
>look in the Classical music section.
>


I will look it up the next time we go to the library!!


>I have other CDs with Greek music. Some are a little hard for a child
>to
>like it, but others really correspond to our stereotype of pagan
>religious
>and banquet music. Nevertheless these records are harder to find in
>the US.
>I can give you the references if you want.
>
>Vale!
>
>Antonius Gryllus Graecus
>(Praetor ad Lusitaniam Provinciam)
>


Please do! As far as it's being hard for a child to like, Terry seems to
like it all. She twirls around and around to Classical as
enthusiastically as she does 'The Purple Guy formally known as
what's-his-face'. At least I can look around and hope for the best.


Fara Med Godanum! -- Crys and Terry and Lapis Stone (due late Feb.)
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Subject:	Re: Epistola Consul Quinto Caecilio Metello (Att. This is part of...
From:	"Antonio M. R. C. Grilo" amg@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 18:58:56 -0000

Salvete omnes!

>I can think of no one better suited, or more deserving, of the office of
>Tribune than Metellus.
It seems that I've lost the elections! =)))

Valete!

Antonius Gryllus Graecus
(Praetor ad Lusitaniam Provinciam)


-----Original Message-----
From: JoeBloch@-------- JoeBloch@--------
To: <a href="mailto:novaroma@--------" >novaroma@--------</a> <a href="mailto:novaroma@--------" >novaroma@--------</a>
Date: Monday, October 26, 1998 5:09 PM
Subject: [novaroma] Re: Epistola Consul Quinto Caecilio Metello (Att. This
is part of...


>From: JoeBloch@--------
>
>In a message dated 98-10-24 21:00:24 EDT, you write:
>
>> Salve Consul Metellus!
>>
>> Dear Consul,
>>
>> When I annouced my candidacy, I told the people of Nova Roma that one of
my
>> objectives was to watch over the lobbies that tend to keep the power
always
>> in the same hands, preventing the legitimate right of any citizen to
>> actively participate in the political life of the state.
>> When I said this, I was thinking about the future, not the present.
>> Today, we received your unbelievable annoucement that you, dear Consul,
>> would be running to be elected Tribune Plebis!!!! What's your objective?
>> Don't you have the courage to defy Decius Iunius Palladius and Lucius
>> Equitius Cincinnatus? Or are you making part of a plot of the high-rank
>> magistracies to control the will of the people by controling the very
same
>> offices of the greatest defenders of the people's rights: the Tribunes?
>> What I think is that you are not telling everything the people must
know.
>
>Bearing in mind that I know what was being done here, and that it wasn't
>entirely serious in intent, I did want to chime in.
>
>Metellus was among the Founding Fathers of the nacent Republic, having the
>honor and distinction of being the only person who, before all of the
>Patrician gentes were taken, specifically asked to be placed among the
ranks
>of the Plebians. Before my untimely resignation from the Consulship,
Metellus
>had intended (as far as I know) to run for the Tribuneship, and only took
the
>position of Consul to fill in for my absence.
>
>I can think of no one better suited, or more deserving, of the office of
>Tribune than Metellus.
>
>Vale,
>
>Flavius Vedius Germanicus
>
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Subject:	Re: Ni-Ni Tory
From:	"Antonio M. R. C. Grilo" amg@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 19:18:19 -0000

Salve!

Here are my references:

"De la pierre au son - Musiques de l'Antiquite Grecque - Ancient Greek
Music", Ensemble KERYLOS, Annie BELIS, K617, France 1996.

"Musique de la Grece Antique", Atrium Musicae de Madrid, Gregorio Paniagua,
Harmonia Mundi, France 1979.

Vale!

Antonius Gryllus Graecus
(Praetor ad Lusitaniam Provinciam)

-----Original Message-----
From: Amethyst C Light amethystcrystallight@--------
To: <a href="mailto:novaroma@--------" >novaroma@--------</a> <a href="mailto:novaroma@--------" >novaroma@--------</a>
Date: Monday, October 26, 1998 6:02 PM
Subject: [novaroma] Re: Ni-Ni Tory


>From: amethystcrystallight@-------- (Amethyst C Light)
>
>On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:43:09 -0000 "Antonio M. R. C. Grilo"
>amg@-------- writes:
>>From: "Antonio M. R. C. Grilo" amg@--------
>>
>>Salve!
>>
>>It was me who initiated the discussion on ancient Greek/Roman music.
>>I've recently bought a record form Amiata Records, called:
>>Music from ancient Rome - Vol. I, by SYNAULIA.
>>SYNAULIA is a musical consort dedicated to music history and
>>archeology. You
>>can find it on Music Boulevard: www.musicboulevard.com I think... Take
>>a
>>look in the Classical music section.
>>
>
>
>I will look it up the next time we go to the library!!
>
>
>>I have other CDs with Greek music. Some are a little hard for a child
>>to
>>like it, but others really correspond to our stereotype of pagan
>>religious
>>and banquet music. Nevertheless these records are harder to find in
>>the US.
>>I can give you the references if you want.
>>
>>Vale!
>>
>>Antonius Gryllus Graecus
>>(Praetor ad Lusitaniam Provinciam)
>>
>
>
>Please do! As far as it's being hard for a child to like, Terry seems to
>like it all. She twirls around and around to Classical as
>enthusiastically as she does 'The Purple Guy formally known as
>what's-his-face'. At least I can look around and hope for the best.
>
>
>Fara Med Godanum! -- Crys and Terry and Lapis Stone (due late Feb.)
><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
>Amethystia Ivnia Crystallina and Primus Ivnia Terrelina
>amethystcrystallight@--------
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Subject:	Re: Epistola Consul Quinto Caecilio Metello (Att. This is part...
From:	JoeBloch@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 14:04:51 EST

In a message dated 98-10-26 13:56:42 EST, you write:

> It seems that I've lost the elections! =)))
>
> Valete!
>
> Antonius Gryllus Graecus
> (Praetor ad Lusitaniam Provinciam)
>

Not at all-- there are two Tribunes (nobody changed that in my absence, did
they?)

Germanicus

Subject:	Re: Epistola Consul Quinto Caecilio Metello (Att. This is part of...
From:	missmoon@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:34:32 -0500

Antonio M. R. C. Grilo wrote:

> From: "Antonio M. R. C. Grilo" amg@--------
>
> Salvete omnes!
>
> >I can think of no one better suited, or more deserving, of the office of
> >Tribune than Metellus.
> It seems that I've lost the elections! =)))

Before the voting's even started? I don't think so. Besides, Plebians don't
listen to anything Patricians have to say about the Tribune of the Plebs'
elections.
You candidates haven't even started the traditional "bribing of the voters" yet!

Still waiting for that diamond fibula,
-- Flavia Claudia

"My vote might be bought, but it ain't cheap!"

Subject:	Re: Etruscans
From:	Robin Harwood phlrrh@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:44:39 -0500 (EST)

Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, polish, Bulgarian, Serbian,
Slovenian, etc.) are Indo European. There are various theries about which
language family Etruscan belongs to, though the general opinion is that it
is not Indo European.

RH











On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, a z wrote:

> From: "a z" artemis_@--------
>
>
>
&g--------g--------om: "Na-------- Hicks" moman@-------- >
> >The same caution ought to be applied to the things which I
> >can recall, but I have read that the Etruscan language is
> >categorized as having come from a non-IE linguistic family,
> >one which was native to the Italian peninsula. The Slavic
> >languages, on the other hand, are from IE. I'm given the
> >impression of his being another ethno-centric quack.
> >
>
> According to the article I was referring to
> (<a href="http://www.moonchild.com/okana/bigos.html#arch" target="_top" >http://www.moonchild.com/okana/bigos.html#arch</a>):
> "their [Etruscan] language as his primary object of research; after
> comparison with all other Eurasian languages failed, he decided to
> take as reference the Slavic languages, and this brought him to a
> crucial discovery: The Etruscan yielded its mystery, revelaing itself
> as a Slavic language. Since this approach, he did not have any
> trouble reading the numerous writings which are being discovered in
> the Etruscan tombs."
>
> thanks for the responses,
> art
>
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Subject:	Re: Epistola Consul Quinto Caecilio Metello (Att. This is part of...
From:	amethystcrystallight@--------)
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:17:49 -0600

On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:34:32 -0500 m--------oon@-------- wr--------:

>You candidates haven't even started the traditional "bribing of the
>voters" yet!
>
>Still waiting for that diamond fibula,
>-- Flavia Claudia
>
>"My vote might be bought, but it ain't cheap!"
>


BRIBERY!!!!! Shame on you!!!!

(Please e-mail me separately for my price and Swiss bank account number
-- Prices may vary -- snicker!!!)

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Subject:	Re: Roman music - Synaulia
From:	Cassius622@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 19:27:14 EST

In a message dated 10/26/98 1:01:31 PM Eastern Standard Time,
amethystcrystallight@-------- writes:

<< >
>It was me who initiated the discussion on ancient Greek/Roman music.
>I've recently bought a record form Amiata Records, called:
>Music from ancient Rome - Vol. I, by SYNAULIA.
>SYNAULIA is a musical consort dedicated to music history and
>archeology. You
>can find it on Music Boulevard: www.musicboulevard.com I think... Take
>a
>look in the Classical music section.
>


I will look it up the next time we go to the library!!
>>

By all means, test "SYNAULIA" out at the library before going and out and
paying for a copy! I personally was really dissapointed with the album. The
group did a wonderful job in re-creating authentic Roman musical instruments
but worked on a rather dissapointing premise... since there is little or no
Roman musical notation left from ancient times, they did not try to write or
play "music". They just made random noises with these ancient instruments, all
the pieces on the album seemed to me to be rhythmic discordant noise. There
was no melody in any piece on the album!

This sort of "freeform" playing is actually a VERY modern concept... ancient
people made music to be musical rather than "artistic". It's almost assured
that the ancient Romans would have played simple pieces you could whistle or
sing to rather than something that sounds like an orchestra tuning up. :(

Anyway, I found it interesting, but impossible to listen to for any length of
time. I certainly didn't find it worth the $20 I paid for the CD...

Vale,

Marcus Cassius Julianus

Subject:	Re: Official Announcement of the Reinstatement of the Gen Vedia
From:	Ricci razenna@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 17:11:59 -0800

Io, Evoe!!! Excellent, and about time. [but don't do *that*
again! Sic, Flavius Vedius? =({;-) ]

Subject:	Re: subscription of The Eagle...
From:	Ricci razenna@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 17:15:35 -0800

This is about the Eagle? Right?
Might it not be easier, and more sensible, if Grylus Graecus subscribed through
our Praetor in Brittania?
His remittence would not have to travel as far, and he could get it sooner.
Non?

Of course this could be about otters' noses (fired or pickeled?) and ... Well,
I always reserve the right to be wrong.

Ericius

m--------oon@-------- wrote:

> From: m--------oon@--------
>
> Antonio M. R. C. Grilo wrote:
>
> > From: "Antonio M. R. C. Grilo" amg@--------
> >
> > Salvete!
> >
> > Can I subscribe through email? I.e. can I send an email with the data
> > present in the subscription form?
> >
> > Vale!
>
> I guess you could -- but we need a check, since we can't take credit cards!
>
> Technology falls short again, due to human shortcomings!
>
> -- Flavia Claudia
>
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Subject:	Re: Epistola Consul Quinto Caecilio Metello (Att. This is part...
From:	Ricci razenna@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 17:35:59 -0800

> From: JoeBloch@--------
>
> In a message dated 98-10-26 13:56:42 EST, you write:
>
> > It seems that I've lost the elections! =)))
> >
> > Valete!
> >
> > Antonius Gryllus Graecus
> > (Praetor ad Lusitaniam Provinciam)
> >
>
> Not at all-- there are two Tribunes (nobody changed that in my absence, did
> they?)
>
> Germanicus

Flavius Vedius, it seems these plebs might not know how to count. Graecus isn't
the first one to sing the "I'm Doomed" song. :-)

Caius Aelius Ericius

Subject:	Re: Roman music - Synaulia
From:	amethystcrystallight@--------)
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 19:26:24 -0600

On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 19:27:14 EST C--------us622@-------- writes:


>By all means, test "SYNAULIA" out at the library before going and out
>and
>paying for a copy! I personally was really dissapointed with the
>album. The
>group did a wonderful job in re-creating authentic Roman musical
>instruments
>but worked on a rather dissapointing premise... since there is little
>or no
>Roman musical notation left from ancient times, they did not try to
>write or
>play "music". They just made random noises with these ancient
>instruments, all
>the pieces on the album seemed to me to be rhythmic discordant noise.
>There
>was no melody in any piece on the album!
>
>This sort of "freeform" playing is actually a VERY modern concept...
>ancient
>people made music to be musical rather than "artistic". It's almost
>assured
>that the ancient Romans would have played simple pieces you could
>whistle or
>sing to rather than something that sounds like an orchestra tuning up.
>:(
>
>Anyway, I found it interesting, but impossible to listen to for any
>length of
>time. I certainly didn't find it worth the $20 I paid for the CD...
>
>Vale,
>
>Marcus Cassius Julianus
>



$20!!!!! sigh....perhaps I can find it in the library and, um,
'recreate' it if I like it. But it doesn't sound like I'm gonna like it.
Terry on the other hand....



Fara Med Godanum! -- Crys and Terry and Lapis Stone (due late Feb.)
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Subject:	Roman Halloween
From:	missmoon@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 20:42:52 -0500

Found this little tidbit in a 'ladies' magazine...They could have
spelled the name of the Goddess Pomona correctly, but otherwise...

"THE ROMAN CONTRIBUTION
Some of our contemporary Halloween customs come from the Roman Empire.
A festival honoring the goddess of fruit, Pamona, was held near Ostia
around November 1. Offerings of newly harvested nuts and apples were
made to Pamona and to the gods of fire and water who helped crops grow.
This custom intermingled with the Celtic festival after the Romans
conquered Britain."

So when you're handing out treats to those little kids, do it for
Pomona!

-- Flavia Claudia

Subject:	by the way, the P.O. box works...
From:	pjane pjane@--------
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 1998 22:48:25 -0500 (EST)

The Nova Roma post office box problem seems to be solved. Mail was received
from Palladius and Savo. Please feel free to continue to send mail there,
and let Cassius or me know if there's a problem.

Patricia Cassia