#sicarii

[trash-soup]

I just told my boyfriend who is a PC in a campaign I'm creating (and will never remember this) about another premade PC's backstory I wrote. I read it for him and it includes these two npcs that are nephews of the PC. The thing is, this PC tasks them with watching her pristine garden while she is at Bard College, and War breaks out so the garden gets ravaged and one of the nephews gets killed. When I revealed the line "the final straw was the stone that she saw near the edge of the Garden that read 'Here Lies Dominic Mossburrow, may he rest content and peaceful' " to him, the sharp gasp and immediate NOOOOOOOOO were such a massive incentive and reward.

Brennan Lee Mulligan, I just wanna say I get it now when you said "I'm gonna kill that dog"

[kramlabs]

James, Dead Sea scrolls and Sicarii Essenes

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[todaysjewishholiday]

7 Menachem Av 5784 (10-11 August 2024)

Shabbat Chazon concluded with the havdalah ceremony and we’re now in the final countdown to Tisha B’Av. If you are fasting this week, remember to hydrate heavily across the next 48 hours. Get what rest you can, and stay out of the sun. If fasting would be dangerous to your health, please remember that Judaism is a religion of life, and that we are commanded to choose life and not to afflict ourselves in harmful ways. There are other ritual ways to remember the sadness brought about by the two burnings of the Beit haMikdash and the resulting periods of communal exile and spiritual turmoil that do not involve self-harm. Fasting is one specific form of mourning for those for whom it is medically safe.

The years of rebellion against the Roman Empire were long difficult years. Factional conflict within the Jewish community and rebel leadership did not make it easier. And as is often the case the most extreme factions were often just as willing to target their own people as they were to attack the enemy they claimed to be fighting.

The Qanai’im (Zealots) and Sicarii (Dagger Bearers) had been advocating the overthrow of Roman occupation long after Nero’s excesses persuaded the rest of Judaean society to join the cause. Deeply aware that their views remained unpopular with the majority of Jews, they sought to force the majority into alignment with them through campaigns of terror. The Sicarii were so known because of their campaign of assassination against Jewish collaborators with the Roman authorities. The Qanai’im had taken their own name from the biblical word for zeal (as in the pasuk “the zeal of your dwelling has consumed me”) but were called Biryonim (Hooligans) by the authors of the Talmud, who blamed them for the revolt’s failure and the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash.

According to tradition, the wealthiest men of Jerusalem had pledged stockpiles of food and fuel to help the residents of the city survive an extended Roman siege. The Qanai’im encouraged a more aggressive campaign of attack against the Roman army, but were rebuffed by the other factions, who were convinced that Jerusalem’s strong defensive position was one of the rebellion’s greatest assets, and that a direct onslaught against the larger and better armed Roman forces was doomed to failure. The story goes that on the 7th of Av 3829, the Zealots set fire to the stockpiles of food and fuel that prepared the city for a siege, convinced that if the residents of Jerusalem had no choice but to fight than the revolt would succeed. When the majority still balked at a direct attack on the Romans the Qanai’im then seized control of the city and took retribution against those who disagreed with them, plunging wartime Jerusalem into civil war. Within a year, the city was in ruins and the Beit HaMikdash destroyed. The zealots has barricaded themselves within the walls of the temple in the final days of the siege, and while the Romans may have destroyed it under any circumstances in their revenge upon the city, the Talmudic sages were certain that the presence of rebels in the sanctuary using it as a fortress was a Jewish desecration which preceded and helped bring about the foreign desecration of the holy place.

[trialsinthelateromanrepublic]

trial of Sextus Roscius

date: late 81-early 80 BCE charge: lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficis [Cornelian law against murderers and poisoners] (parricidium, murder of father Sex. Roscius) defendant: Sex. Roscius advocate: M. Tullius Cicero cos. 63 prosecutors: C. Erucius T. Roscius Magnus praetor: M. Fannius witnesses: T. Roscius Capito T. Roscius Magnus

Cic. S. Rosc.; Off. 2.51; Brut. 312; Orat. 107; Quint. Inst. 12.6.4; Plut. Cic. 3.2-4; Gel. 15.28; Vir. Ill. 81.2; Schol. Gronov. D 301-316St

[jakey-beefed-it]

A 40k army I would love to see someone else make, as I am not actually interested enough to do it myself I just think it would be neat-

Skaven Mechanicus.

Skaven Genestealers are the obvious choice for bringing Skaven into 40k (assuming they're Imperium-adjacent and not just xenos) given the similarities of literally and metaphorically undermining the oppressive feudal empire in service to their own ends rather than to make things better. But the rats are so fun and mad-sciencey in WFB and AoS, the thought of them scrambling about with mechadendrites and rad-guns is more appealing to me, personally. I mean, mechanicus people's remaining flesh is always gross and dying due to how much radiation they're exposed to, the typical skaven plague boils would fit right in.

Skitarii are easy enough (hell the name is already halfway to skitter through linguistic serendipity). Literally just come up with some kind of elongated snout hooded masked head, 3d print a billion of them, and glue them right to the existing bodies. They don't even necessarily need ears, though that would be hella cute.

Sicarii would be even better though, imo. Digitigrade mechanical legs and all that. You'd just have to find a way to get enough robes for the whole squad and not just the leaders, because robes are such a big part of the skaven look. Just throw in some stormvermin bits, swords and whatnot, to really sell the look.

Similar thing with techpriests tbh; they're already hunched over rat-style. Just get yourself some guitar string and make cable-tails coming out the back of their robes. Maybe add a bit of patchy fur to like, the exposed wrist of the tech-priest dominus. Give him claws if you're confident with the tiny sculpting.

How big is the doom wheel? Like serberys-sized or more sidonian sized? Too small to be a counts-as onager or skorpius, though, right? Just throw more mechanicum bits and symbols on the existing skaven model and run that. It' be hilarious.

Wait, I'm dumb, the doom flayers are the perfect size to be serberys dragoons and the other one, leave the doom wheel for sidonians or bigger.

Kataphron look like they should be easy to give the same treatment as the skitarii et al with just a little head-swap but I dunno, that seems uninspired to me. Maybe make them more like clan-rat powered mini-tanks? Couple of little hatches with horrid rat faces peeping out? Or maybe just keep the servitor as human, lol. "The only good use-function for man-things!"

Anyway yeah I don't have the time, energy, or give-a-shit to actually do any of this, but I'd love to see someone else who's more excited about Mechanicus and/or Skaven do it.

[eleemosynecdoche]

It's easy to be snide, but like the portrayal of lower-class Jews in Roman Judaea who sympathized with the "Zealots" and "Sicarii" as members of contemporary tiny Marxist and Maoist splinter sects, the point is to generate laughs by pointing to the parallels and highlighting the differences.

Pontius Pilate's non-rhotic accent (Pontius Piwate's non-wotic accent) marks him as an equivalent to an upper-class British man, and the lower-to-middle-class legionaries thus are on the other side of a culture barrier where they make fun of cartoonish names in a very lowbrow way and the refined aristocrat (wefined awistocwat) has a friend with a silly name that he doesn't accept as silly. Sort of like the absurd names Terry Pratchett used for minor Ankh-Morpork characters analogous to such aristocrats- "Winstanleigh Greville-Pipe" and the like.

But also, the refined aristocrat, the professional prefect (pwofessionaw pwefect) is an utter brute who sees nothing amiss about ordering constant violence. The joke is that the British upper class are very proud about imaginary dignity, comparing themselves to the Romans (Womans) and also that the British upper class aren't that far off from the murderous Roman political elite (muwdewous Woman powiticaw ewite) when it comes to cruelty and violence.

[beardedmrbean]

[Huey Zoomer Anon]

After our talks about it made sense Isreal to modern militarize themselves to defend themselves

And the “I love Jews!” which the left did actually meant “I only know the PG version of Judaism and never look up their military and assassinations history….Despite the word Sicarii eventually become the Latino American slag sicario meaning “Hitman”

People point out Malcom X influence in magneto….he wasn’t the only inspiration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakam

Holy FUCK, no wonder black and Jewish communities had so much synergy in the 60’s? Any Jewish people here who meet or had ties to holocaust survivors can confirm that a lot of early healing went something like this?

“I know we are all hurting! But repeating the same shit that happened to us will only continue the violence!”

“NO I WANT REVENGE!”

“WHY ARE YOU SO FUCKING DENSE?!”

Also people bring up magento holocaust past….you do if he achieved in wiping out humans, that also mean surviving holocaust survivors and their descendants as well?

My god am I the only who understand long term effects?

But back to the Jews…the left only think of the misery porn and victim versions of the Jews. They don’t know about their warrior and military past.

Do you think victims of genocide are just going to sit on their asses until white guilt activists with savior complexes give them “handouts?”

Just going by my own personal abuse healing…the left don’t know jackshit about what natives and marginalized groups without victims complexes want

And the “I love Jews!” which the left did actually meant “I only know the PG version of Judaism and never look up their military and assassinations history….Despite the word Sicarii eventually become the Latino American slag sicario meaning “Hitman”

Feels more like they'd rather just see them as whatever stereotype they've invented in their minds and when people stray outside of that and, heaven forbid, act just like everyone else they will see them as inauthentic.

As for the Sicarii probably would have been better off if those guys hadn't been around given what their antics wound up causing to happen, also they're likely not unique in history even if they are the first ones we know about.

Every group has nastiness in it's history, only some of it got written down so there's that as well.

60's thing, there were all kinds of different groups and people involved in the civil rights movement, MLK and Malcolm X are two of the big name and it's important to look at both of them with their wildly different takes on how things should go.

But back to the Jews…the left only think of the misery porn and victim versions of the Jews. They don’t know about their warrior and military past.

That's one of the observations you'll get from a lot of Jewish commentators, 'the world only cares about Jews when they're either dead or dying' folks want to be seen as the hero coming in to save the day and heaven forbid they defend themselves against external threats to their safety.

It's a kind of victim fetish but the people with it don't want to be the victim.

Just going by my own personal abuse healing…the left don’t know jackshit about what natives and marginalized groups without victims complexes want

That's been my observation too, like I said above.

[absolute-immunities]

Adrian Vermeule reads Macaulay’s paranoid fantasies of Jesuit casuists and sicarii and says “that’s so based actually”

[darkmaga-retard]

Civil society champions of the junk science mRNA revolution keep dying suddenly and unexpectedly

Toby Rogers

Aug 12, 2024

One of the most difficult things about the current crisis is describing just how strange it is. Many claim that this is just history returning to its dismal norm (feudalism and slavery) but I contend that in many ways we are in uncharted territory.

I struggle to find the right metaphor to describe it:

Yes, it’s a genocide which harkens back to the horrors of Germany in the 1940s but in this case the Nazis are eagerly killing themselves.

Yes, it’s like the Moscow show trials where Stalin prosecuted the heroes of the Russian revolution. But I don’t think that anyone other than Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon) really believes that the Bolsheviks on trial were genuinely confessing rather than just taking a plea deal to try to save their families. By contrast the Covidians are eagerly participating in their own demise and sacrificing their own families to serve the glorious junk science mRNA revolution.

The Covid hysteria resembles manias and panics from earlier eras. But tulip mania was just a financial bubble and witch trials were the theocratic feudal state persecuting a subaltern “other” that threatened their power. In our case the society-wide hypnosis is now in its fifth year and shows no signs of abating and, again, the hypnotized are killing themselves in unprecedented numbers.

One might argue that this is a mass suicide event but it has none of the valor and defiance of oppressed people resisting conquest (such as the Teutons, Numantines, and Sicarii killing themselves rather than be enslaved by the Roman empire).

Well perhaps it’s a mass suicide event akin to a cult? However the scale is unprecedented — in the tens of millions. Literally all of civil society throughout the developed world became Jonestown but without a charismatic leader and without the coercion of armed men.

So the Covid crisis has elements of genocide, show trials, hysteria, mass suicide, and cults. But it’s also stranger than that and more than the sum of its psychotic parts.

I’m struck by the ways that The System is now devouring its most devout adherents:

Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube with a net worth of $800 million, censored the scientific information that could have saved her life (deleting over one million Covid-related videos). Last week she died of turbo cancer (a known Covid vaccine side effect) at 56 years old.

[sublimacje]

What would you think if on The Chosen, Kafni later led a rebellion against the Romans and was given the nickname Barabbas?

I don't think it would be accurate as historians (and not everyone agrees that Barabbas ever existed what's very interesting) say that Barabbas was part of Jewish group called Sicarii (something similar to Zealots) who fought with Romans and killed them frequently. Jews wanted Barabbas to be spared because he was the closest thing to what Jews imagined while thinking about the Messiah – they wanted to be free of Romans.

[koro-from-ivalice]

I don't have that many old screen shots of the characters I played a lot. I would mostly take jokey pics with joke characters. This one was my favorite Stalker. Codename Ainsarri. Katana/Ninjitsu. My friend would play Codename Sicarii with a similair outfit. We beasted missions where all you had to do was kill the leader.

[gladiatrixenlaarena]

La palabra sicario tiene su origen en Roma, y es aquel que procede de la palabra sica que es una daga pequeña y fácil de esconder, de punta muy aguda y filo curvo que, en la antigua Roma, se utilizaba para apuñalar a los enemigos políticos, por lo que sicario significaba hombre daga.

[cicerobussytransplant]

that being said, the lex cornelia sullae de sicariis et veneficis is eminently fuckable

[dwellordream]

From Hope of Children to Object of God’s Care: Abortion in Classical and Late Antique Society

“Roman law viewed abortion through two specific lenses: husbands’ interests in safeguarding the inheritance of legitimate children and regulation of drugs or poisons. A rescript issued under the father-and-son emperors Septimius Severus and Caracalla in the early third century typified one approach. It subjected a woman (by implication, married) who had an abortion to temporary exile because ‘it can seem shameful that she cheated her husband of children with impunity’. Jurists lent this legal approach an aura of antiquity. 

Tryphoninus, another jurist active under Septimius Severus, connected the rescript to a case originally recounted by Cicero (d. 43 BCE). A woman from Miletus, a Greek city in Asia Minor, received a capital sentence for deliberately having an abortion after receiving a bribe from rival heirs. In fact, Tryphoninus did not fully explain the background. In Cicero’s account the woman had been recently widowed. Her deceased husband’s interests were at stake. Cicero agreed with the sentence because she had injured the ‘parent’s hope, the memory of his name, the provisions of a race, the heir of a family and a future citizen of the republic’.

Nonetheless, for Tryphoninus, the point was clear. Any woman who ‘has brought violence upon her insides after a divorce, because she is pregnant, so that she does not procreate a son for a hated husband, ought to be forced into temporary exile, which has been written by our most noble emperors’. Abortion could harm male interests. Safeguarding these interests was not just a legal thought experiment.

The second legal approach focused on the use and abuse of drugs, venenae, a term which could also mean poisons. Roman jurists discussed and debated the parameters of legal regulations on drugs, including interpretation of a law dating back to Republican Rome, the Lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficiis. Jurists thought carefully, for instance, about potential problems with the use of drugs in medical practice, including midwifery.

One provision clarified that drugs for healing (ad sanandum) did not fall under the remit of the law, but added that a senatorial decree penalized any woman ‘who not with bad intention, but with bad example, has given a drug for conception, from which a woman who received it has died’. The third-century jurist Paulus brought supply of specifically abortifacient drugs within the remit of the law. 

Anyone who dispensed an abortifacient or aphrodisiac drink (abortionis aut amatorium poculum) was liable to be sent to the mines or, if from the upper class, exiled to an island because, ‘although [perpetrators] may do no harm, nonetheless … the matter sets a bad example’. Bad example was ill-defined but it was related to the possibility that such drugs imperiled a woman’s life rather than the life of the fetus she carried.

The principal laws quoted above were collected in the Digest, part of the great legal project undertaken during the reign of Justinian (d. 565). From the perspective of late Roman Christian emperors and their jurists, Roman legal approaches to abortion formed part of an inheritance that was centuries old. The impact of Christianization on Roman law after the conversion of Constantine can be felt in several areas, including in law on infant exposure and abandonment. 

A rescript from 374 issued under Valentinian I, Valens and Gratian made infanticide a capital offence under the Lex Cornelia. This law channelled Christianizing dynamics through established legal tradition, though subsequent fifth- and sixth-century law on infant exposure and abandonment increased the distance between classical and late Roman law. But no clear equivalents on abortion were issued. 

The closest thing to new legislation on abortion appeared in late Roman imperial legislation on divorce and remarriage, which possibly had abortion in mind. The sixth-century legal compilation, the Novellae, reiterated a law of Theodosius II (d. 450) which granted a husband the right to divorce his wife if she was guilty of specific offences, including being a druggist or poisoner (venefica). A similar law – a man could divorce his wife if it were proven, among other things, that she was a medicamentaria (druggist) or malefica (sorceress) – had been issued a century or so earlier by Constantine (d. 337).

Both laws might have envisaged (or have been interpreted as envisaging) recourse to abortion. Nonetheless, in Roman law abortion constituted a public offence insofar as it harmed husbands’ interests or risked women’s lives. But it was never punishable as the killing of a fetus. Different practices generated different perspectives on what made abortion problematic. For medical writers abortion raised questions about professional conduct and the nature of medicine. 

The modern temptation is to start with the Hippocratic Oath. Precisely what the Oath’s provision on abortion might have originally meant and the extent to which it represented the mainstream of ancient Greek (let alone Roman) medical ethics remains debated. Thinking in terms of reception is more illuminating. In the first century Scribonius Largus, physician to the emperor Claudius, used Hippocrates to frame the ethics of medicine.

According to Scribonius, Hippocrates had prohibited teaching about abortifacients or prescribing them to pregnant women. His position was not exactly premised on the idea that destroying the fetus was murder. If people thought that to injure (laedere) the ‘uncertain hope of a person’ was wrong, then how much worse was it to kill (nocere) a perfected being? Abortion compromised the integrity of ‘medicine, the science of healing, not of killing’. Scribonius’s construal of medical ethics might well be an outlier, for his work was not widely read.

Another author, whose Greek work (and its Latin reincarnations) was, makes clear that abortion was subject to ethical and even physiological disagreement among doctors. Soranus of Ephesus famously distinguished between atokion (contraceptive), which ‘does not let conception take place’, phthorion (abortifacient), which ‘destroys what has been conceived’ and ekbolion (expulsive), which some regarded as ‘synonymous with abortion’ but others considered distinct because it entailed ‘shaking and leaping’.

Soranus also reported a ‘controversy’. Some doctors refused to prescribe abortifacients because of the Hippocratic injunction against abortion. According to this camp, the core obligation of medicine was to ‘guard and preserve what has been engendered by nature’. Other doctors prescribed abortifacients ‘with discrimination’ on medical grounds such as when uterine abnormalities made childbirth dangerous, and ‘they say the same about contraceptives as well’. Soranus sympathized with this second position, reasoning that it was ‘safer to prevent conception from taking place than to destroy the fetus’.

There were multiple conceptions of medical ethics and professional norms. Galen chided medical authors for divulging information on abortifacients because many were risibly ineffective and those which did work were dangerous. Pliny the Elder (d. 79), whose Naturalis historia provides an intriguing non-professional perspective on medical (and non-medical) reproductive technologies, refused in principle to provide information on abortifacients except by way of providing warnings.

He did not quite live up to his professed reticence, though much of his relevant information concerned expelling fetuses already dead in the womb and his references to abortion tended to carry warnings. He justified mentioning information on an atocium – an amulet containing worms cut out from a particular kind of spider – because ‘some women’s fecundity, teeming with children, needs such indulgence’. The plurality of perspectives represented, in part, different responses to the tension between safeguarding maternal health and medicine as healing. 

The tension was palpable in the Euporiston, a fourth-century work by Theodorus Priscianus. The third book, adapted from Soranus, was devoted to gynaecology and contained a section on abortion. ‘It is never right to give an abortive to anyone,’ it began before quickly referring to Hippocrates. But Priscianus also recognized that complications such as uterine abnormalities or a woman’s age could precipitate dangerous obstetric emergencies. He likened the difficult choice to pruning the branches of a tree or emptying overloaded ships of their cargo during a storm. 

Nine abortifacient remedies followed. The obstetric emergencies which these recipes were designed to avoid were real dangers. The most extreme recourse was embryotomy, the surgical excision of living or dead fetuses from the womb. A powerful evocation of the medical dilemma appeared in a tangent on embryotomy in De anima, a theological treatise by the early Christian author Tertullian (d. c. 225). 

Tertullian used embryotomy, taught (so he claimed) by the medical heavyweights Hippocrates, Asclepiades, Herophilus, Erasistratus and even the milder (mitior) Soranus, to refute the argument that the soul was not conceived in the womb but only later after birth. If embryotomy killed a fetus, Tertullian reasoned, then the fetus had been alive and animate. He also conveyed some practical details. A special surgical device prised open the womb while an attached blade dissected the fetus. Another instrument with a copper spike took the fetus’s life. 

Tertullian’s position on the morality of embryotomy is more difficult to interpret. He described the practice as a crime (scelus), a throat-slitting (iugulatio) and a furtive robbery (caecum latrocinium) performed with a gruesome spiked instrument he called the embryo-slayer (a Greek word, embruosphaktê). But Tertullian’s charged language was also flecked with acknowledgment that the predicament raised difficult choices. 

The infant in the womb was ‘butchered with necessary cruelty’ because it threatened to become a ‘matricide unless it dies’. Embryotomy was a final resort. In other words, most medical and moral discussion of abortion focused on much earlier (and more ambiguous) stages of pregnancy. Nonetheless, Tertullian’s tangent dramatized the core medical tension between the life of the fetus and the life of the mother, between healing-not-killing and killing-to-heal. It also demonstrates that a medicalized construal of the problem of abortion could migrate beyond the works of medical writers.”

- Zubin Mistry, Abortion in the Early Middle Ages, c.500-900

[trialsinthelateromanrepublic]

trial of Procilius

date: 54 BCE, verdict reached on July 4 charge: lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficis (murder of paterfamilias) defendant: Procilius advocate?: Q. Hortensius Hortalus cos. 69 (ORF 92.XVI) prosecutor?: P. Clodius Pulcher aed. cur. 56 (ORF 137.VI)

Cic. Att. 4.16.5; 4.15.4

[anon-skeleton]

Lex Cornelia de Sicariis et Veneficis

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Es hija de Killer (de @/rahafwabas ) y Mafia (De @/not-using-anymore-ty / KIDWMA )

Tiene 19 años

Mide 1,60M

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Es una chica algo sádica pero tranquila y bromista

Es antonegra / matona en la mafia de Dirk

Suele tener problemas para encontrar pareja debido a su muy notable falta de saber manejar una relación

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She's the daughter of Killer (by @/rahafwabas ) and Mafia (by @/not-using-anymore-ty / KIDWMA)

She's 19 years old

She's 1,60M tall

Bisexual biromantic

She is a somewhat sadistic but calm and joking girl

She's a thug in Dirk's mob

She usually has problems finding a partner due to her very notable lack of knowing how to manage a relationship

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