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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8352849, member: 110350&quot;]How long do you think that avatar is going to last? Not long, I&#039;m afraid.</p><p><br /></p><p>Caesar was no humanitarian, but ancient casualty numbers, especially for battles, are almost always highly exaggerated. Logistics and supplies weren&#039;t nearly advanced enough to support armies -- especially &quot;barbarian&quot; armies -- the size of the claims one reads. I usually take 1/10th of the stated figures as being more plausible. The &quot;million Gauls&quot; figure for Caesar&#039;s cumulative victims is equally dubious, I think, even though it&#039;s supposed to include civilians. I doubt that the population of Gaul was that much more than a million to begin with at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple of my favorite -- although very different -- Nero portraits. (Note that even in the young, skinny portrait, he already has a couple of rolls of fat on his neck!) </p><p><br /></p><p>Did he (or anyone else) really feed Christians to the lions?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1482273[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1482272[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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