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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Dec 17, 2016 ^^
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2:48 My boy, History Civilis.
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0:50 That rebel in the crowd
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One thing I came across in my Latin class was that perhaps the Romans didn't bet actual nuts in their betting dice games during the Saturnalia, a point that came up as we were translating Martial's epigrams actually, which is a nice coincidence to how this video ended.
Nux did mean walnut, yes, but it was also used as a metaphors for "thing of little/no value", being used that way by Martial; the theory my teacher mentioned was that perhaps some people used some of those crappy gifts they kept around to give to random visitors in their bets; there is slim evidence for this, since it comes almost entirely from Martial using the metaphor of "nuts" as something of little value to refer to the presents during Saturnalia, but well, it is a possibility and it kinda makes more sense; then again lots of things about Saturnalia make little sense so who knows xD
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@sgtrpcommand3778
5 years ago
Imagine being a poor Roman mother rushing about Walmartius looking for gifts for everyone thinking "I swear, Saturnalia comes about earlier each year!"
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