Explanation: During the darkest days of the Second Punic War, fought between the Roman Republic and Carthage, the great Carthaginian ("Punic") general Hannibal had invaded Italy and utterly destroyed several Roman armies in rapid succession. While the Roman Republic as a whole doubled-down on fighting the war to the bitter end, the sense of despair was palpable in some circles.

A group of young Roman aristocrats gathered together at this time, plotting to escape their mandatory military service rather than share the fate of the Filthy Poors(tm), but were interrupted by fellow aristocrat Publius Cornelius Scipio (later known as Scipio Africanus), who was around their age, but already had combat experience in the war. Having heard about their plan (loose lips sink ships), he extracted from them, at swordpoint, an oath to Jupiter that they would stay and fight for the Republic, and not shirk their duty while better men died on the field in their place!

Rough. Roman. Memes.

This is a sub on here?

Like, quid hoc futuo est??

First one I made, even, way back on Kbin! I couldn't convince the other mods from r/RoughRomanMemes to give the Reddit Exile a try, but I figured I'd at least keep a presence up myself. One thing led to another, and now I'm trying to juggle a dozen comms despite the fact that I was a borderline lurker back on Reddit. XD

Fuck it. You have my axe.

why did he get banned

No clue. Not an action on my part.

Oh, I thought the "Banned" meant he was banned from the community. It seems he was actually banned from his instance/Lemmy as a whole.