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    Roman Gladiator's Gravestone Describes Fatal Foul


    http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110620/sc_livescience/romangladiatorsgravestonedescribesfatalfoul



    An enigmatic message on a Roman gladiator's 1,800-year-old tombstone has finally been decoded, telling a treacherous tale.

    The epitaph and art on the tombstone suggest the gladiator, named Diodorus, lost the battle (and his life) due to a referee's error, according to Michael Carter, a professor at Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada. Carter studies gladiator contests and other spectacles in the eastern part of the Roman Empire.

    He examined the stone, which was discovered a century ago in Turkey, trying to determine what the drawing and inscription meant. His results will be published in the most recently released issue of the Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik(Journal for Papyrology and Ancient Epigraphics).
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    Re: Roman Gladiator's Gravestone Describes Fatal Foul

    i guess they didn't have instant replay.....

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    Re: Roman Gladiator's Gravestone Describes Fatal Foul

    Now that was a situation where it's unarguably called for. Life and death!
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    Re: Roman Gladiator's Gravestone Describes Fatal Foul

    Refs - sucking since the Roman Empire.

    my junk is ugly

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    Re: Roman Gladiator's Gravestone Describes Fatal Foul

    Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    Refs - sucking since the Roman Empire.
    Probably kin to the officials from the Ohio State / Georgia playoff game.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    Probably kin to the officials from the Ohio State / Georgia playoff game.
    Oh Please!

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    Quote Originally Posted by NoisyBoy View Post
    Oh Please!
    That was targeting. Buckeyes got robbed.
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