Subj : Re: Titus Pullo
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : John I
Date : Wed Oct 19 2005 20:07:49

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

John I wrote:

> 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
> 

And it should be obvious to anyone with eyes that Cleopatra 7 was hot:

http://interoz.com/egypt/cleopatr.htm
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/Cleopatra_Statuette.jpg

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