On the 18th September AD 96 another of those dreadful Roman Emperors was done in. This time it was Domitian. His father had been the great military commander Vespasian, who started work on the Colosseum. Domitian succeeded his equally good brother, Titus, but when he fell ill, he left orders to his attendants to let him starve.
Domitian was a sadist and as he grew older he lost his good looks and athletic frame. He took his brother’s daughter as a mistress and executed a man after he had taken his wife from him, because he had joked about it with Titus. His wife hatched a plot with another who also feared for his life, using other members of the Emperor’s exasperated staff.
The assassination came days after Domitian had celebrated his 15th anniversary as Emperor.
The man who would do the deed was Stephanus, the steward to  the Emperor’s niece, Domitilla. Days before he began wearing a sling, feigning an injury. On the 18th September he placed a dagger in it and at a good moment pulled it out, stabbing Domitian in the groin. The two wrestled for their lives, until four more plotters came in and stabbed the Emperor a further seven times.
He was succeeded by a 65 year old Nerva, who was elected by the Senate and who died of natural causes. He was the first of the Five Good Emperors.
Another peice of crap wrote by me ( A&A.org forum histor
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Hello I had an idea to make an archive of this forums history, so this information is’nt lost.
-Posters to have reached 1000 posts (in order)
1. TG Moses VI
2. Yanny
3. Cystic Crypt
4. GeZe
5. Falk
6. Xi-Worst poster ever
1. GeZe (myself)-Best poster ever
1. (ideas?)If I have made a mistake please inform me, or if you have ideas for the “Best poster ever”
(luckly for me there are tons of internat cafes in Bulgaria)
sure, this is another crapy post by myself that no one will respond to, but I dont care
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You’re not the worst person that has posted here.
I think anyone that post here on a consistence bases, is fine.
Don’t be so hard on yourself, guy.
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… and the wayward son returns to wrest his heritage back from Xi, the evil usurping brother. (Xi jumped ahead in posts, but seems to be on an extended hiatus.)
(Maybe, with a little encouragement, I can instigate a power struggle. That would be coup!
I think we’ve got a forum or two to help pull datafrom… if we can find them! :roll: One was almost an A&A Academy Awards(my capital a fingers hurt now.)
My vote for WPE is Wild2000. Lotsa posts then he gets mad(or whatever) and goes through putting smilies(?) for every post after deleting the words. That is a sorehead/obsessive/wacko, I think.
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i was wondering what happened to Wild2000.
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@El:
My vote for WPE is Wild2000.
:lol:
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Hey, Wild is back!
Wait a minute…it’s another smilie. There’re everywhere. The smilie invasion continues. Run for your lives!!!
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Damn! I’m good. 8)
Geez, W__00! That’s a 6 month hiatus. Dija enjoy your vacation?
Oh, nice ta mecha!
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@El:
(Maybe, with a little encouragement, I can instigate a power struggle. That would be coup!
:-? Do you mean cool, or coup, because yes, it would be cool, and yes, it would be a coup. :wink:
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@El:
… and the wayward son returns to wrest his heritage back from Xi, the evil usurping brother. (Xi jumped ahead in posts, but seems to be on an extended hiatus.)
(Maybe, with a little encouragement, I can instigate a power struggle. That would be coup!
I think we’ve got a forum or two to help pull datafrom… if we can find them! :roll: One was almost an A&A Academy Awards(my capital a fingers hurt now.)
My vote for WPE is Wild2000. Lotsa posts then he gets mad(or whatever) and goes through putting smilies(?) for every post after deleting the words. That is a sorehead/obsessive/wacko, I think.
I think I may have been gone for a longer period oftime than Wild2000, but then again, I guess only the administrator would know. By the way, what ever happened to djensen? Does he ever post?
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