Roman Apres Party : XCIX Bottles of Wine on the Wall

[florilegia]

In honor of the Ides

Comments

[dwimmerlaik]

Or just get his Praetorian Guardsmen to do it for you, hee hee. The Romans did in fact have ways to express numerals, there are actual words that go with the numeral signs.

[femfataleatron]

Yeah, like "echs echs eye vee eye" or "em cee echs eye vee"! kewel!

[florilegia]

Yes, although you might have one or two loyal scoundrels like Sejanus.

The question still stands, though, did they have a word for ninety-nine or did they just say the representative letters? As femfataleatron pointed out so kindly in his transliteration...)

But where did you find words written out to designate the letters? Inquiring minds want to know...all I have access to is written text, not audio recordings. ;-)

[florilegia]

Loyal should have been in italics.

[joanofarchetype]

Hey, I'm only here for the garum.

[florilegia]

Garam masala?

*garumph*

[joanofarchetype]

Garum

\Ga"rum\ (g[=a]"r[u^]m), n. [L., fr. Gr. ga`ros.] A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

Very similar to today's Thai fish sauce.

[femfataleatron]

Does not having a zero make one more optimistic, not being able to conceive of nothing and all?

[florilegia]

Eternity and nothingness are equally within our grasp.

[joanofarchetype]

Everything Zen.

[femfataleatron]

But were they within the romans grasp? Romans might have had access to the Upanishads...