O.T. Re: SC - period suerkraut?

[Philip & Susan Troy]

marilyn traber wrote:

> the gauls actually invaded the urbs of rome itself[nifty description in
> cato(i think)] of the senators with their long white beards seated on
> their chairs as the gauls enter the city. they tweak a beard and the
> senator hits the gaul with his rod of office and the gauls kill the
> senators. gauls 1 plus a bunch of gold, roma 0.   the romans never quite
> got over it.
> 
> margali

Story also appears in Graves' "I, Claudius", IIRC, for the
non-Latin-speaking among us. As for the final score, I should point out
that modern Italians aren't the ones speaking a Celtic language, are
they, whereas... ;  )  ?

G. Tacitus Adamantius, Roman in the Gloamin'
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