• defunct_punk@lemmy.world
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        Yeah one of the fist ways I learned to create engagement was to fake typos / make simple grammer mistakes.

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      I didn’t realize that was supposed to be an I, | thought it was being used like asterisks to indicate action.

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        that’s what I think it’s supposed to be, but then the middle one is missing the | so who knows

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      It’s not meant to be an I, it’s meant to be an action. They’re not writing “I commanded an army”, they’re writing “commanded an army”.

      No, it was not a good choice. But that’s what they were probably doing.

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    Stable and prosperous? She started with a civil war and ended by being conquered by Rome. The bit in the middle wasn’t stable either.

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      3 Antony, on the contrary, like Heracles in paintings where Omphalé is seen taking away his club and stripping off his lion’s skin, was often disarmed by Cleopatra, subdued by her spells, 957and persuaded to  p339 drop from his hands great undertakings and necessary campaigns, only to roam about and play with her on the sea-shores by Canopus and Taphosiris. 4 And at last, like Paris, he ran away from the battle and sank upon her bosom; although, more truly stated, Paris ran away to Helen’s chamber after he had been defeated; but Antony ran away in chase of Cleopatra, and thereby threw away the victory.

      Plutarch was a bit of both, but that tendency has definitely existed longer than movies.

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    Don’t historians say she probably wasn’t sexy? Just super bold which attracted powerful men, who hasn’t seen much of that back then.

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    Nothing to me says ‘sexy’ quite like your grandad and your great-grandad being the same guy, or your (great * 5)-grandmother / grandfather being one man and woman, when most people have that responsibility spread between 64 people.

    Close family. Must have made Christmas easy - having the in-laws round isn’t so bad when they’re your own blood relatives too.