Subject:	Re: [novaroma] EDICTUM PROPRAETORIS PROVINCIAE LACUUM MAGNORUM
From:	Centurion M Bianchius Antonius <imperialreign@yahoo.com>
Date:	Mon, 7 Jan 2002 18:04:15 -0800 (PST)

I would like to thank Africanus for appointing me
Legatus of Lacus Magni Orientalis. I will try my best
to live up to his confidence in me to carry out this
duty.

Marcus Bianchius Antonius

--- Shane Evans <marcusafricanus@yahoo.com> wrote:
> EX DOMO PROPRAETORIS PROVINCIAE LACUUM MAGNORUM
> EDICTUM PROPRAETORIS
>
> Effective ante diem VII Id. IANVARII MMDCCLV a.u.c.
> (7
> January 2002), I, Marcus Ascipio Africanus, accept
> the
> Senate's appointment to the Propraetorship of the
> Provincia Lacus Magni, and issue this edict.
+
> snip

> III. Marcus Bianchius Antonius, resident of Ohio,
> shall be appointed Legatus of Lacus Magni Orientalis
> (Eastern Regio), which is comprised of the states of
> Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky. He
> shall
> serve as a local contact for citizens in that
> Region,
> to preside at local events, and to perform
> administrative tasks for the province as a whole.
>
snip
>
> Signed,
> M. Scipio Africanus
> Propraetor
>


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Subject:	[novaroma] Re: I, Claudius?!?
From:	"quintuscassiuscalvus" <pokrock@aol.com>
Date:	Tue, 08 Jan 2002 02:16:05 -0000

--- In novaroma@y..., Craig Stevenson <gaiussentius@y...> wrote:
> Salvete omnes,
>
> I was just wondering if anyone out there can tell me
> just how much of the story "I, Claudius" can be said
> to be actual fact and reliably based on factual
> evidence?
>

Salve

I'm afraid that I don't know enough about I Claudius in particular to
comment on the story in particular, but I do know enough of the
historical fiction genre to make a brief comment about the genre in
general

One must remember that in historical fiction history is merely the
skeleton the author provides the flesh. History rarely records
private conversations (unless one is in the Nixon White House) nor
does history record the internal motivations of people. Not to be an
apologist for Hitler, but one can only begin to guess at his "hidden
demons." The motivations, the hidden thoughts, the private
conversations within historical fiction are purely the speculation
and imagination of the author and tend to say more about the author's
own psyche than the actual people about whom is being written.

A good example of which I am more familiar would be Colleen
McCullough's works. Marius in his later years is drawn as a rather
pathetic figure. Marius was a brilliant general but as a politician
he was rather inept. My read on history is not so much Marius the
poor pathetic once brilliant man robed of his faculties but as a man
with an ax polical ax to grind and later in life when he had nothing
left to lose ground it very well indeed. The contrasting between the
noble Marius and the ignoble Sulla makes for a good literary device
but my personal read on history has it six of one and half a dozen of
the other. Marius in his early years was not as noble as Colleen
make's him out to be and I doubt Sulla as ignoble. I doubt in the
conservative climate of the times that someone who lived a life as
debauched as Sulla's early years according to the novels would have
risen to the heights he did.

Pax,

Quintus Cassius Calvus

Subject:	Re: [novaroma] EDICTUM PROPRAETORIS PROVINCIAE LACUUM MAGNORUM
From:	asseri@aol.com
Date:	Mon, 7 Jan 2002 23:51:23 EST

In a message dated 1/6/02 11:59:47 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
marcusafricanus@yahoo.com writes:


> Prima Fabia Drusila shall be appointed Scriba
> Propraetoris
>
Salvette,
I wish to thank M. Scipio Africanus for the appoinment of Scriba
Propraetoris.

May the gods look kindly on all our endeavors for Provincia Lacus Magni and
its populous.

P. F. Drusila







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Subject:	[novaroma] oath of office-Scriba Propraetoris
From:	asseri@aol.com
Date:	Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:40:40 EST

Salvete,
I stand before you a woman of Nova Roma. Head bowed and covered in white wool
in humble supplication before all the Gods and Goddesses and the populous of
Nova Roma. I do give my oath of office.

I, Prima Fabia Drusila (Janet L. King) do solemnly swear to uphold the honor
of Nova Roma, and to act always in the best interests of the people and the
Senate of Nova Roma.

As a magistrate of Nova Roma, I, Prima Fabia Drusila swear to honor the Gods
and Goddess of Rome in my public dealings and to pursue the Roman Virtues in
my public and private life.

I, Prima Fabia Drusila swear to uphold and defend the Religio Romana as the
State Religion of Nova Roma and swear never to act in a way that would
threaten its status as the State Religion.

I, Prima Fabia Drusila swear to protect and defend the constitution of Nova
Roma.

I, Prima Fabia Drusila further swear to fulfill the obligations and
responsibilities of the office of Scriba Propraetoris to the best of my
abilities.

On my honor as a Citizen of Nova, and in the presence of the Gods and Goddess
of the Roman people and by their will and favor, do I accept the position of
Scriba Propraetoris and all the rights, privileges, obligations, and
responsibilities attendant thereto.






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