• NaibofTabr
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    92 months ago

    Is this the same Hadrian who built a wall to keep people from going to Scotland?

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      142 months ago

      The very same! Though it was the other way around - he wanted to keep the proto-Scots out.

      • Skua
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        82 months ago

        That’s what he told everyone, but in reality he was just desperately trying to stem the tide of defecting legionaries after they got a taste for our phenomenal… uhh… oatcakes, maybe?

        • @PugJesusOPM
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          112 months ago

          “The Caledonii fry a bar of the god of war Himself in animal fat, and then EAT it?! They are truly a powerful people! We must make pilgrimage there and taste of this divinity!”