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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.

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[–] PugJesus 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“Raptam esse mimulam.” Quod dicitur Atinae factum a iuventute, vetere quodam in scenicos iure maximeque oppidano. O adolescentiam traductam eleganter! cui quidem cum, quod licuerit, obiiciatur, tamen id ipsum falsum reperiatur.

“A little mime-actress is said to have been raped.” It’s said that this was done at Atina by a group of youths, using a certain old custom allowed at the scenic games, especially in country towns. What an honorably-conducted young manhood! He is reproached with something he was permitted to do, and yet that very reproach is found to be baseless.

  • Cicero defending a rapist's 'character'

While Julius Caesar would later pass a law unambiguously demanding the death penalty for all rapists of free individuals, this poor girl was about ten years too early to be served justice by the law.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

TIL that rape is a "certain old custom."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I know that Germany only made rape inside the marriage a crime in 1997. And some conservatives argued against it with your words: it is an old custom/tradition.

Oh and one of those assholes that voted against criminalizing it has good chances to be chancellor next year. Great country I'm living in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's not atypical for traditional cultures to have "courtship" customs and rituals that don't stand up to modern ideas about consent.

[–] shalafi 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, yeah.

Droit du seigneur comes to mind.

Y'all that think 2024 is a fucked up time really should have paid attention in history class and done some of your own reading.

[–] Aielman15 2 points 1 week ago

Reason number #476 to hate Cicero

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The past might not be so rosy, but the same occurance might happen today. And I wouldn't evem be surprised.