Subj : Re: Titus Pullo
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : John I
Date : Wed Oct 19 2005 19:53:05

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Trouble wrote:

> John I wrote:
> 
>> Cato is a whiny loser.
> 
> Well, I think he's shown himself to be an idealist... he doesn't like to 
> compromise his ideals, even to achieve his goals, and that I think makes 
> him both a poor politician, and poor tactician.
> 
> It was partly Cato's urging for a massive defeat of Caesar, when Pompey's 
> wait him out strategy would surely have ended him.
> 
> I DO wonder what happened to Caesar's legions wintering in the Alps... 
> 
> M. Antony: Caesar has many more legions than the 13th.
> Caepio: On the far side of the Alps...
> MA: Winter does not last forever. Spring comes, snows melt.
> Pompey: That's a threat!
> MA: I assure you that's no threat. Snows always melt.
> 
> Well dammit its been over a year now, where the hell are those legions?
> 

I don't know whether these are the "legions on the far side of the alps" but 
Ceasar had reinforcements from Pergamon flown in to help kick the asses of 
Ptolemy 13 and his other, much uglier, sister Arsinoe 4.

- John 1

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