Wot have the Romans ever done for us?

[ACORN]

How about pizza, and Sophia Loren!
Close enough for me.

 

[CH4]

Hallowe'en? Corvus? (did they invent crows?) Postal Services? - that was the Persians, whose description of their couriers inspired the USPS creed, "Neither snow nor rain... "etc., Toga? Are they "in" again? Must get mine dry cleaned. Proper living standards? (the lead in their water pipes and cosmetics didn't do the populace any favours.) Roman numerals look really classy, but try calculating the cube root of MDCMXIII on your iBacus...

But aside from all that, they DID vastly enrich our language, gave us some great architecture to copy (Greeks, too), and a lot of pageantry to inspire us, albeit not always to the better, cf Nazi Germany...

I see I've opened capsa vermis...

lol

A corvus is also the ramp used to board ships.

 

[oldbrownhat]

How about pizza?

I'm not sure about pizza, but other excavations there have turned up a "fast food" counter.

A "fast food" shop from the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, which was  destroyed in a volcanic eruption almost 2,000 years ago, is to open to the public - for viewings only - next year.

The food counter, known as a thermopolium, would have served hot food and drinks to locals in the city.

The paintings found at the site are believed to show some of the food that was on offer to customers, including chicken and duck.​

 

[rwsmith]

We had a jingle in Latin Class...

Latin is a dead language,
as dead as it can be.
First it killed the Romans,
and now it's killing me.

 

[robvious]

?mmmmmm. bacon....

 

[oldbrownhat]

Latin is a dead language,
as dead as it can be.
First it killed the Romans,
and now it's killing me.

Or, as the Romans themselves might have said:

Sola lingua bona est lingua mortua
(The only good language is a dead language)
​

 

[Rustyt1953]

Grammar.

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0lczHvB3Y9s[/ame]

 

[erikpolcrack]

How to build long-lasting roads with proper ditches and culverts. I've driven on some of them still in everyday use in England. I sure wish they could of had a colony here in Pennsylvania and left some of their roads as how-to examples for PENNDOT.

 

[JcMack]

Ferrari 250 GTB4

 

[swsig]

They invented the lava lamp.

 

[Imissedagain]

Music greater than Opera.
Like the boy band...... the Romoans.
[ame]https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z1-R2LEuao[/ame]

 

[ladder13]

Music greater than Opera.
Like the boy band...... the Romoans.
YouTube Music

Memories of CBGB’s and Max’s Kansas City.

 

[375hh1973]

We couldn’t name Super Bowls without them

This!!!

Was my first thought when I read the thread title

 

[Golddollar]

A centurion walked into a bar and said to the bartender, "Give me a martinus."

The bartender said, "You mean martini, don't you?"

The centurion replied, "Look, if I wanted two of them I would have asked for them."

 

[Jack Flash]

... Trojan priestess Cassandra (who looks utterly bored)

She was out too late with Bacchus the previous night.

 

[Onomea]

Latin is a dead language,
as dead as it can be.
First it killed the Romans,
and now it's killing me.

Latin class. Ah, yes.

ambulo, ambulare, ambulavi, ambulatus!

Sister Mary Ellen still terrorizes my dreams sixty years on...

 

[oldbrownhat]

Latin class. Ah, yes.

ambulo, ambulare, ambulavi, ambulatus!

Sister Mary Ellen still terrorizes my dreams sixty years on...

All I can remember is "bellum, belli, bello, bellarum, bellatis, bellunt" (or something like that), and something called "the ablative of means."

Of course, I could just look it up in my Latin for Canadian Schools which I still have. It's probably somewhere in the first few chapters of the 610 page volume

Something must have stayed with me because in 2016 I bought this scholarly volume, which as I recall I enjoyed: