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“All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?” (thelemmy.club)
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[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Mostly killing us until we put on their clothes and learn Latin, but after that it's killing you for not addressing your superiors in the Roman heirarchy correctly!

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