In what era? Or did that not matter? My understainding (Not a pro) was even before the end of the republican times the legions had standardised on sword and shield. Again this is for the legions. If that is wrong when did they start?

Not that I'm 100% confident of this, but part of it is probably Roman culture/bigotry. The Romans considered Gauls to be the ancient enemies of Rome and utterly barbaric to boot. According to traditional Roman history, the Gauls sacked Rome ~390BC. A prominent Gaulic war leader that had some successes against the legions like Vercingetorix did would probably have caused uproar if he'd been allowed to live among the Romans.

Did Roman Baths slope like modern pools? That is, did they tend to have “deep” and “shallow” ends?

Probably because Caesar wanted to use his defeat as a political tool to help him retain the consulship and get even more popularity with the lower classes.

And whoever that group was, they were eventually wiped out by a subsequent group.

Fair. But also, even sane people think cats are demons today. 🤷‍♂️😀

I'd love to read it but thos site doesn't allow me to decline cookies. Which I'm pretty sure is illegal in my neck of the woods.

.. did you expect a Portuguese monk to look like an Asian woman?

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Yeah so do they leave the scythes in place?

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Well yeah DUH, wtf! Obviously it's easier for a modern ratcatcher to use dogs, especially terriers

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I really liked Legionary: The Roman Soldier's (Unofficial) Manual!

Thats why I said secretive and not secret. Thought it was self-explanatory.

It's not a secret organization per se, they never denied existing, it's that their rituals are kept secret.

Experience vs Qualifications

Recently that timeline seems to be moving.

no there are certainly examples of cat purges, for assorted reasons but primarily because as I said they just didn’t have the knowledge and needed to blame things. “large numbers” is relative, most are scattered examples with less than 100 cats killed. I know that is a large number of cats but I’m talking relative to the total cat population.

>mentioned they were killed in great numbers during the plague

Pretty sure some one else refuted that by saying it was a myth?

important to remember that people in the medieval era had varying opinions just like you two have now. some probably didn’t like cats, some probably preferred them. in literature I’m sure you’ll find examples of both opinions. also u/no_motor_7666 mentioned they were killed in great numbers during the plague, clearly out of desperation and something that isn’t entirely unexpected without modern medical knowledge. while cats may have been seen as demons by some, and by more in times of despair, this is not indicative of a standardized negative attitude towards cats.

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