| Re: THURSDAY THE 24TH |
Subject: Re: THURSDAY THE 24TH by GRIS on 2018/5/24 15:14:16 Quote:
AIN'T NO FLIES ON THAT! WHEN I RETIRED I QUIT CARRYING A WATCH :-) FINISHED PLODDING THROUGH “JEWISH ANTIQUITIES” BY FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS. NOT AN EASY READ, THE SYNTAX IS SCRAMBLED MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW. IT MAY BE A DIRECT TRANSLATION FROM THE LATIN OR GREEK ORIGINAL. THIS PASSAGE AT THE END OF THE BOOK CAUGHT MY ATTENTION, IN VIEW OF THE CURRENT PC “PRISON REFORM” CONSISTING OF TURNING DRUG PEDDLERS LOOSE. THIS TOOK PLACE UNDER THE EMPEROR NERO. But when Albinus heard that Gessius Florus was coming to succeed him, he was desirous to appear to do somewhat that might be grateful to the people of Jerusalem so he brought out all those prisoners who seemed to him to be most plainly worthy of death, and ordered them put to death accordingly. But as to those who had been put into prison on some trifling occasion, he took money of them, and dismissed them; by which means the prisons were indeed emptied, but the country was filled with robbers. IT SEEMS THAT AMONG POLITICIANS, BAD IDEAS NEVER DIE. LETTY, THAT STUFF SOUNDS MISERABLE. IS IT AN INNER EAR PROBLEM? |
. Isn't that what retirement is all about?