Tridents (was Re: FreeBSD Version Release numbers)

Mark Murray mark at grondar.org
Fri Jun 13 05:29:45 PDT 2003


Paul Robinson writes:
> Hate to get into a bitch-slapping fight here, but Terry is right. The modern
> thing with thumbs-up meaning "good" doesn't translate directly to the Roman
> era. It's well established in historian circles, pretty much every Roman
> historian who is considered credible etc., all agree - thumbs up meant
> death, and thumbs down meant mercy.

I guess my Latin teacher was wrong, then :-)

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