Quote Originally Posted by Darius View Post
I actually remember watching this one documentary on the History Channel and they had this one letter from some Roman soldier's on sentinel duty somewhere out on the northern frontier and the basic gist of the letter was that they were out of beer (or ale or something) and were sending men to the nearest settlement to get more. I about died laughing when I heard that.
That's probably the Vindolanda letters, which are beautiful to see. Lots of amazing stuff have been recorded and the fact that they survived is amazing.

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