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From: "Vito Corcia" <>
Subject: Re: INSUBRES where from
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 13:59:41 GMT
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Oh let this go on a few more months. This Italian history lesson is becoming
very informative.

In fact, it has taken on a resemblance of a bunch of history professors from
Harvard in the front sitting room of a club in downtown Boston arguing
historical facts with the original painting of Oliver Wendell Holmes
groaning on the wall over the fireplace each time the front door opens.

VEETZ...
"Il Corsaro" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Sat, 3 Nov 2001 13:16:52 +1100, "GeeTee" <>
> wrote:
>
> >I suggest to you to buy a proper History book. Your Oxford Classical
> >Dictionary (2nd edition) is just not good enough.
> >
> >In 196AD. Claudius Marcellus (a possible ancestor of the Marcello
family),
>
> In 196AD?????????????
>
> Why oh why do you keep on wasting our time?
>
> Il Corsaro
>
> P.S.
>
> You should change ALL your AD's to BC's.
>
>
> >defeated the Insubres neas Lake Como. A VERY FAMOUS BATTLE. After that
> >battle, the Insubres signed a treaty which included the promise that they
> >would never have Roman citizenship. After 196AD, the Romans started
> >settling around Milan and the area was "Romanised" with in a century.
> >
> >The Insubres did become citizens in 49AD. The history in between is
> >irrelevant because the Question was about the Insubres not what was going
on
> >in "Italy".
> >
> >You have to read History, there is no point posting messages that are not
> >factual.
> >
> >
>


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