{"id":44112,"date":"2018-10-10T21:09:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T19:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/since-they-do-not-wish-to-eat-let-them-drink\/"},"modified":"2018-10-10T21:10:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T19:10:55","slug":"since-they-do-not-wish-to-eat-let-them-drink","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/since-they-do-not-wish-to-eat-let-them-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Since they do not wish to eat, let them drink!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 249 BCE, the great-great-grandson of the famous Appius Claudius (as a <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-republic\/roman-offices\/censor\/\">censor<\/a> changed Latin spelling and built in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a> one of the first <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-architecture\/roman-buildings\/roman-aqueducts\/\">aqueducts<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-republic\/roman-offices\/roman-consul\/\">consul<\/a> Appius Claudius Pulcher during the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wars\/punic-wars\/first-punic-war\/\">First Punic War<\/a> attacked the Carthaginian fleet at <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/battles\/battle-of-drepanum\/\">Drepanum<\/a> (today&#8217;s Trapani) in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/underfloor-heating-system-in-villa-romana-del-casale-sicily\/\">Sicily<\/a>. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, he was defeated, losing 93 ships from 120. It was believed that the defeat was caused by previous action of Claudius. Namely, when sacred chickens &#8211; used for divination of the result of the battle &#8211; did not want to eat (which was considered as a bad omen), he ordered to throw them into the sea saying &#8220;Since they do not wish to eat, let them drink!&#8221;. Later on, he was dismissed to Rome and ordered to appoint a dictator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36463,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-44112","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/44112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/44112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=44112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}