Trajan rides again

[FierceKitty]

FORTVNA FELICES IVVANT!

(= Fortune favours the lucky.)

[mmcv]

Which is normally Lee...

Maybe Fortuna vero dormiebat?

Fortuna was having a nap.

[FierceKitty]

REM ACU TETIGISTI.

(= Got it in one - free translation)

[OldenBUA]

The Persians will by now have appealed to all the gods and have succeeded in accusing the Romans of foul play. A trial by combat is meant to prevent the greater bloodshed of a full battle, and the Romans have trampled that notion.

This does not bode well for the Romans in the future.



Best to prepare for a long string of defeats, I'd say.

[FierceKitty]

Italy is still recognisably with us. Persian civilisation is a memory....