PieFedA raven spreads the GLORY OF ROME
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Explanation: The Romans were very fond of omens, and wise merchants could take advantage of that fact. When the Emperor Augustus returned from one of his harder-fought battles, he was met by a man who had a raven - which immediately greeted Augustus with ‘Hail Caesar, victorious commander!’ Augustus was tickled pink by this, and probably regarded it, as any upstanding Roman would, as a good omen to be greeted by such a trained bird (Romans LOVED taking any odd occurrence as an omen), and paid 5,000 denarii for the bird - the equivalent of over 20 years’ pay for a common soldier! (one might compare it to $400,000 in the modern day)
Obviously this was a VERY CIVILIZED BIRD! AVE CAESAR!
SkullgridAVE CAESAR!
In spanish, Ave means bird… in certain contexts
Lvxferre [he/him]That Spanish ave is from avis, avem “bird”.
As far as I know no Romance language inherited ave “hello”, and most presence is through reborrowing. Although I do have some suspicions Portuguese oi “hi, hey, hello” might be a descendant.
This gives me hope that my plan to teach local ravens to say “Target acquired” will someday be successful.
Don’t let your dreams be dreams
Explanation: The Romans were very fond of omens, and wise merchants could take advantage of that fact. When the Emperor Augustus returned from one of his harder-fought battles, he was met by a man who had a raven - which immediately greeted Augustus with ‘Hail Caesar, victorious commander!’ Augustus was tickled pink by this, and probably regarded it, as any upstanding Roman would, as a good omen to be greeted by such a trained bird (Romans LOVED taking any odd occurrence as an omen), and paid 5,000 denarii for the bird - the equivalent of over 20 years’ pay for a common soldier! (one might compare it to $400,000 in the modern day)
Obviously this was a VERY CIVILIZED BIRD! AVE CAESAR!
Business idea … train a dozen ravens to say … ‘Heil Hitler!’ … sell them for $50,000 each to neo-nazis
If these idiots are this dumb … it’s an easy way to make money
I was going to say “You’ll have to first train the neo-nazis to have a superstitious veneration for coincidence resembling pre-modern societies that don’t understand weather patterns”, but then I remembered they’re neonazis, and that’s probably a checkbox they already have filled.