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Originally Posted by Mike Jahn
Revilo Oliver wrote about Stoicism being "Semitic" but I never knew if he meant Arabic or Jewish. However, I do know that Zeno the founder of Stoicism was a flaming homosexual.
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Phoenician. Phoenicians excercised great economic power in the ancient world, which had led them by the late second century to comprising one third of the Roman senate and puutting a Phoenician, Severus, in the imperial seat. Severus, if you will remember, slaughtered countless aristocrats and purged the senate, and his son Caracalla, whose mother was a Syrian, declared all free inhabitants of the Empire Roman citizens in 212 A.D.. And that was that.
Caracalla
All the monuments of the ancients and all histories have handed down to us the tradition that the race of the Phoenicians is the most treacherous of all races. The Poeni, who are descended from them, have proved by many rebellions of the Carthaginians, and very many broken and violated treaties, that they have in no respect degenerated from them.
Cicero