Visitors to the MiL site may have noticed this video. Everytime I watch it it makes me smile.
The Roman official reads the messsage from Marcus Crassus to Spartacus and his companions thus:
`Your life is saved: slaves you have been and slaves you will remain, but you will be spared the terrible pains of crucifixion only if you will never more say the Mass of Saint Pius V'
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I would have thought it would be far more effective to say:
"Your life is saved: slaves you have been and slaves you will remain, but you will be spared the terrible pains of crucifixion only if you will say the Mass of Saint Pius V."
It depends who you think is in charge I suppose.
I would answer 'God' to that question good Doctor.
However the whole point of the Spartacus incident is that it shows courage in the face of represive authority as Spartacus men choose death before the dishonour of surrendering their leader. It`s about defiance. Can`t see that working of Crassus is God.
The most moving moment in the Spartacus film is where all the slaves, one after the other, say "I am Spartacus".
Move forward 2 millenia, and Reverendus Dominus Brown is arraigned before His Lordship on a charge of Traditionalism. Suddenly, from among the baying throng comes a cry "I am Father Brown", followed by dozens, nay hundreds, taking up the cry "I am Father Brown".
The road from Forest Hall to West Denton is then marked at 10 yard intervals with the crucified corpses of hundreds of Father Browns.
1569 Rising - LOL
"The road from Forest Hall to West Denton is then marked at 10 yard intervals with the crucified corpses of hundreds of Father Browns."
'Fathers Brown', surely?
I am bereft, nay disgusted at my failure to keep the rules of grammar so intensely hammered into me by a succession of English teachers both at St Cuthbert's and Ushaw.
I am deeply grateful to FrankE for pointing out my contravention of the basic rules of the language.
I shall disappear into my duvet covered pit clutching "Eats Shoots and Leaves".
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