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Originally Posted by Skybird
Can happen easily with Roman history, which in the main consists of nothing but names, more names, and then even more.
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Not that easily, when we're talking about an era where there were only a handful of "big names", and a mistake such as this (which you have done before also) isn't easy to make if one is even slightly familiar with the subject. Gaius Marius is a big name in both the history of the Late Republic and in Roman Military history in general.
That you decided to add bunch of extra, unneeded information to your reply, such as the rundown of relationship between Sulla and Marius and Marius the Younger who is rarely mentioned when talking of the era due to his unimportancy leads me to believe you had to check this from e.g. Wikipedia (not a bad thing) and to further show your "level of knowledge" you decided to add this extra stuff in.
You also did this with Augustus, adding information such as he was also known as Octavian and was Caesar's grandnephew. That is all extremely basic information about perhaps the most famous Emperor of the Roman Empire. That you added the extra, again, leads me to believe you had to check who the guy is and only added the extra to "show your knowledge".
I've seen this happen many, many times over the years all over the internet. People trying to look smart by saying something, then adding something completely unneeded to further show their "knowledge". To me, it just screams "I just checked it on the wiki!".
My purpose is not to embarrass you Skybird, but to try to make you understand, that your own knowledge of the subject appears to be seriously lacking and therefore you simply cannot assess whether what Engels writes is correct or not. As much as his view supports your dream of seeing the EU come crashing down, surely you understand that blindly believing his views without the needed knowledge to confirm them as true is foolish?