I'm just gonna throw in the bit of historical trivia that the ancient (pre-Republic) Roman calendar *didn't have months* for January and February -- that whole time of year was just called "winter" ("hiems") and not worth keeping track of until the Kalends of Marchhttps://twitter.com/Hal_Duncan/status/1315751438673379336 …
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It's funny because I went to Catholic school and they told us something very similar to this. I don't remember it being Rome or where it was that was supposed to have banned marriage but yeah that lady was probably pulling from something she was told as child.
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It's a distorted version of the fact that Roman *soldiers* (a relatively small all-volunteer force, during the height of the Empire) were not allowed to get married while they were on active duty Because they were deployed in occupied territory for long periods
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Wait, what? I'd always assumed the claim was that Rome banned *christians* from getting married, not that they banned it altogether.
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Not according to this lady! (And not according to the story I heard when I went to a Christian high school in the US, which was the same)
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