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In lugnet.harrypotter, Erik Olson writes:
> In lugnet.harrypotter, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > In lugnet.harrypotter, Aaron Dalan writes:
> > > > In lugnet.harrypotter, Shiri Dori writes:
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> > > > > You're right and that's probably why it's small, but if you post details
> > > > > about the plot, please post a spoiler notice! People might not have read it
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> > > We still need spoiler notices years after the book came out? I can see the
> > > reason for spoiler warnings for new works, but...
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> > You know, this brings to mind an episode from Livy's _Ab urbe
> > condita_, written nearly two thousand years ago but just as
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> > Ahem. Um, just kidding. :D
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> Well, wind up the audience and let them down... I shall not however!
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> "The last to attack Romulus' city were the Sabines. Their plans were
> carefully laid, and backed by treachery. For Spurius Tarpeius, the commander
> of the Roman citadel, had a daughter, a young girl, who, when she had gone
> outside the walls to fetch water for a sacrifice, was bribed by Tatius, king
> of the Sabines. When she admitted a party of his soldiers into the fortress,
> she was crushed to death under their shields, to make it look as if they
> took the place by storm -- or it may be to show by harsh example that there
> must be no trusting a traitor.
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> "There is also a story that this girl had demanded as the price of her
> services 'what they had on their shield-arms.' Now the Sabines in those days
> used to wear on their left arms heavy gold bracelets and fine jewelled
> rings. They kept their bargain! paying, however, not, as the girl hoped,
> with golden bracelets, but with what else they had on their arms."
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> -Titus Livius
If only they had heavy gold bracelets and fine jewelled rings for minifigs,
we could reinact this historical scene!! But of course we would need a
****WARNING SPOILER ALERT****
or someone could see the creation, without knowing how it had turned out,
and, well, you know...
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| (...) Well, wind up the audience and let them down... I shall not however! "The last to attack Romulus' city were the Sabines. Their plans were carefully laid, and backed by treachery. For Spurius Tarpeius, the commander of the Roman citadel, had a (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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