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How critical is road bike tire pressure max?
On 4/24/2018 7:58 PM, Andre Jute wrote:
On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 1:14:01 AM UTC+1, John B. wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:51:23 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2018-04-23 17:48, John B. wrote: [...] The Roman Legions apparently marched for about 2/3rds of a day carrying their gear and weapons - a Century did have several mule carts assigned for carrying tents and other gear - and then built a camp before "falling out" for the night. According to Caesar's reports from Gaul this went on for days at a time. You believe Caesar's writers? I never did. Whenever they got beaten the snot out of them they wrote "the winds were unfavorable" or whatever. If they wrote the truth they'd likely have "disappeared". Caesar was essentially a politician and wrote his reports specifically to keep his name before both the population and the rulers of Rome while he was absent from the city (I believe that he paid to have them read publicly) and thus they were always complementary. However other evidence does show that he generally did accomplish when he claimed to have done. For example, he claimed to have sold some 53,000 Adualeui into slavery and independent sources show that the price of slaves in the Mediterranean area dropped to all time lows in the same period, which would tend to demonstrate that there was a large influx of slaves, from somewhere, during this period. -- Cheers, John B. Since you're interested in the period, John B., perhaps you'd like to answer this riddle: The Romans imported enormous amountseeee of wheat from Egypt. What did they export in return in sufficient amounts to pay for all this grain? Andre Jute One of the disadvantages of a classical education is the sheer number of unanswered questions Not only. Grain in large amounts from across North Africa and Asia Minor ( imperium oriens) too. My understanding is that the tax was paid in grain so, as with taxes right here right now, taxpayer gets nothing. OK, maybe lack of persecution, which has value. If you discover more on this, I'm interested; write me. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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