Talk:Utica (Rome)

Why do you keep taking single line breaks out of the pages?

They break up the bullet points so they are easy to read/edit the source code, and they dont't effect how the Wiki outputs the HTML code.

Beowulf314159 04:10, 26 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Because they do affect the resulting HTML code. Check it out below. --MarkSweep (call me collect) 05:52, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

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toga

 * Vorenus seems unfamiliar with the practice of putting on a toga. This is strange since, as a citizen, it would have been expected that he should have worn it on some formal occasions before, the toga being the very emblem of the adult Roman citizen with full entitlement to his rights.

What occasions, exactly? This matters because it would determine exactly how strange it is. Vorenus is the quintessential soldier—he seems like the type who would avoid formal occasions even when he has the opportunity to attend them. On the other hand, his sense of duty means he would definitely be present if it were a requirement. 82.92.119.11 20:49, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Well... his coming of age (where he would have been given his toga virilis), his wedding, and any attendance to political assemblies where citizens exerted their political rights and obligations. definitely not everyday wear, but not something completely unknown either... of course, he might have enlisted right upon attaining manhood, and not ever have exerted citizenship by attending comitiae and the like yet... but he seems too much a man of the world (if not used to high level politics) to be so ignorant. --Svartalf 21:55, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the detailed response; in light of that it would be strange for Vorenus to be unfamiliar with the toga. However, I've just watched this episode and the unfamiliarity is a bit overstated. He does remark it "feels strange" and gawks at himself in the mirror, but it has to be a few years at least since he's put one on, given the length of his assignments. I can't tell how strange (or not) it is for his wife to dress him (or put the finishing touch on it, at least) but it seems no odder to me than, say, a modern-day soldier putting on a tuxedo for a formal occasion after many years of field duty. Even if he knew what a tuxedo looked like, it could be an odd moment. 82.92.119.11 23:02, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

He may have been referring to the fact that this was a Toga candida, the toga of political candidates, rather than the standard number. That may be why it was "strange".