Trivia Thread Resurrection

[The Larch]

One was stationed in Italia, the other Egypt?

One was in Italia itself, yeah (the Legio II Parthica, stationed near Rome itself), and there was one in Egypt as well (the Legio II Traiana Fortis, stationed in Alexandria), but in my book Egypt is sort of a border province, so I wasn't counting it.

[Caliga]

Ah ok, yeah I guess Egypt is a border province.

[The Brain]

Iberia?

[The Larch]

Iberia?

Yup, Legio VII Gemina, stationed in modern León.

[The Brain]

I, genuis.

Open floor.

[The Larch]

So, the breakdown was something like this (around the end of Septimius Severus' reign, 211 AD):

In Europe:
- 6 legions in the Upper Danube border (provinces of Raetia, Noricum and Pannonia).
- 6 in the Lower Danube border (Dacia and Moesia)
- 4 in the Rhine border (Upper and Lower Germania)
- 3 in Britannia.
- 1 in Italia.
- 1 in Iberia.

In Asia:
- 6 legions in Siria.
- 2 in Cappadocia.
- 2 in Mesopotamia.

In Africa:
- 1 in Egypt.
- 1 in Numidia.

For a grand total of 33 active legions.

[Syt]

"Our" local legions were from the early 2nd century till ca. the 5th century Legio X Gemina in Vindobona and Legio XIV Gemina in nearby Carnuntum.

[The Larch]

"Our" local legions were from the early 2nd century till ca. the 5th century Legio X Gemina in Vindobona and Legio XIV Gemina in nearby Carnuntum.

There was a 3rd legion stationed in what is today's modern Austria, the Legio II Pia Italica, which was stationed a place called Enns, in the current border of Upper and Lower Austria, in what was then the province of Noricum. The two you mention were in Upper Pannonia, and there were another two in Lower Pannonia (modern Hungary), and another one in Raetia, in Regensburg, in modern Bavaria.

[Admiral Yi]

This one is impossible, so anyone within a 1,000 miles gets the win.

What is the origin of the word "malapropism?"

[HVC]

Looked it up. No where near what I would have guessed

[Eddie Teach]

Was it a character named Mrs Malaprop?

[Admiral Yi]

Was it a character named Mrs Malaprop?

chicken dinner!

[Syt]

Who said:

"Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole labor of community exists within that relation."

[Admiral Yi]

Adam Smith?

[The Brain]

Mr. Ed?