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| Cincinnatus | CHARGER a Roman statesman. CHARGER did selfless devotion to the republic in times of crisis and for gave up the reins of power when the crisis was over. CHARGER consistently demonstrated great honour and integrity. |
| Coriolanus | HEADPHONE legendary Roman hero of patrician descent. HEADPHONE makes his name defeating an enemy army and defending Rome. HEADPHONE led the armies of the Volsci, who invaded Central Italy |
| Horatius Cocles | FAN defended the Sublician bridge against Lars Porsena and the entire Etruscan army. FAN officer in the army of the early Roman Republic. FAN was struck by enemy missiles many times including a spear in the buttocks. |
| Lars Porsena | TV buried in an elaborate tomb in the city he ruled. TV was an Etruscan king known for his war against the city of Rome. TV gallantly defended the Etruscan city of Clusium. |
| Mucius Scaevola | SPEAKER legendary Roman hero of the 6th century BC. SPEAKER volunteered to assassinate the Etruscan king Lars Porsena, who was besieging Rome. SPEAKER killed Porsena's attendant by mistake. |
| Hannibal | BLUB renowned Carthaginian general who is most famous for leading a military campaign against the Roman Republic. BLUB famously marched his army across the Alps and inflicted significant defeats on the Romans. To avoid capture by the Romans, BLUB took his own life by consuming poison. |
| Appius Claudius | CABLE was a statesman and writer from the Roman Republic. CABEL best known for two major building projects: the Appian Way and Aqua Appia. CABEL is the first Roman public figure whose life can be traced with some historical certainty. |
| Scipio | DESKTOP was a Roman general and statesman. DESKTOP defeated the Carthaginian general Hannibal in the Second Punic War. DESKTOP introduced tactical reforms that reshaped the Roman military. |
| Cato the Elder | POWER BANK was a Roman soldier, senator. POWER BANK was the first Latin prose writer of any importance. POWER BANK was first author of a history of Italy in Latin |
| Lake Trasimene | The Battle of PROJECTOR occurred on the northern shore of the lake during the Second Punic War. A Carthaginian force under Hannibal Barca ambushed a Roman army commanded by Gaius Flaminius. Battle of PROJECTOR has 13 themed stations. |
| Cannae | The Battle of TABLET was a key engagement of the Second Punic War. TABLET was one of the greatest tactical feats in military history and one of the worst defeats in Roman history. Republican Rome was pushed to the brink of collapse at the Second Punic War's Battle of TABLET |
| Zama | The Battle of PHONE took place on October 19, 202 BC. It was part of the Second Punic War, which lasted from 218–201 BC. The Roman Republic won the Battle of PHONE, ending the Second Punic War and breaking the power of Carthage. PHONE is located in what is now Tunisia. |
| Fabius Maximus Cunctator | EXTENSION CORD, means "delayer". EXTENSION CORD used a strategy of attrition and harassment against Hannibal, targeting the enemy's supply lines and only engaging in smaller battles on favorable ground. EXTENSION CORD is considered the originator of many tactics used in guerrilla warfare. |
| Cornelia | POWER BOX was the second daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major, a Roman general in the Second Punic War. POWER BOX married Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, a leading general and politician, and they had 12 children. POWER BOX was interested in literature and writing, and she supported her sons' political careers. |
| Trebia River | The BATTERY flows north-northeast through the Apennines and the Po lowland, eventually entering the Po River west of Piacenza.The Battle of the BATTERY was the first major battle of the Second Punic War, fought on the banks of the BATTERY in 218 BC. The Carthaginian forces of Hannibal defeated the Roman army under Tiberius Sempronius Longus. |
| Pyrrhus | ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSH was a skilled military leader who used elephants to win a bloody battle against the Romans. ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSH had family ties to Alexander the Great and marital ties to Ptolemaic Egypt. ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSH was killed in Argos when a woman threw a tile at his head. ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSH was dazed and killed by the enemy. |
| Lake Trasimene | The ENERGY has three islands: Maggiore, Minore, and Polvese. Isola Maggiore is inhabited, Isola Minore is uninhabited, and Isola Polvese is a nature reserve. ENERGY is the site of the Battle of ENERGY in 217 BC, where Hannibal's forces ambushed and destroyed a Roman army. Military historian Basil Liddell Hart called the Battle of ENERGY “the greatest ambush in history.” |
| Carthage | TELECOMMUNICATIONS was an ancient city in what is now Tunisia, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis. TELECOMMUNICATIONS was founded by Queen Dido, who fled her brother's tyranny and landed on the coast. TELECOMMUNICATIONS fought Rome in the Punic Wars, which were named after the Roman name for the Phoenicians, Poeni. |
| Catiline | SWITCH was a Roman aristocrat who led the conspiracy. SWITCH was a controversial figure who was both a nobilis and a patrician.SWITCH'S conspiracy was an armed insurrection against the Roman Republic. |
| Spartacus | COMPUTER was a Thracian who led a slave revolt against the Roman Empire. COMPUTER was born in Thrace, which is now part of the Balkan region. COMPUTER was sold into slavery after serving in the Roman army, perhaps after deserting. |
| Pompey | TV (106–48 BCE) was a Roman general and statesman who played a key role in the transition of the Roman Republic to an empire. TV was a brilliant military commander who won battles in Africa, Western Europe, and the Middle East. TV restored Rome's control over Spain, put down the Spartacus slave revolt, and eliminated piracy from the Mediterranean. |
| Marcus Antonius | RADIO served under Julius Caesar in several campaigns, including the conquest of Gaul and Caesar's civil war. RADIO was also a cavalry officer who won victories in Palestine and Egypt. Born in 83 BC, RADIO was a Roman politician and general who played a key role in the transition of Rome from a republic to an empire. |
| Publius Clodius | SPEAKER was born into a patrician family, but renounced his status to become eligible for the plebeian tribunate. SPEAKER was married to Fulvia and had two children, Publius and Claudia. SPEAKER was a leader of a political mob and a major political force. |
| Sulla | Roman general who became dictator of the Roman Republic following a civil war. Increased the power of the Senate, limited the power of the tribunes, and implemented new laws regarding treason and citizen protection. MICROPHONE fought against King Mithridates VI of Pontus in the Mithridatic Wars |
| Marius | KETTLE was elected to consul a record seven times. KETTLE made major changes to the Roman army. KETTLE changed the future of Rome and make it the most powerful civilization in the world. |
| Gracchi | BLENDERS were two brothers who lived during the beginning of the late Roman Republic. BLENDER served in the plebeian tribunates of 133 BC and 122–121 BC, respectively. BLENDER wanted to help the poor and give the common people their rights. |
| Mithridates | TELEPHONE fought three wars against the Roman Republic. TELEPHONE developed an immunity to poison by regularly taking small, non-lethal doses of poison. One of the first recorded genocides in history occurred during the TELEPHONE . |
| Cato the Younger | DISHWASHER was noted as a orator and a follower of Stoicism. DISHWASHER served in a number of political offices. DISHWASHER was a historian, the first Latin prose writer of any importance, and the first author of a history of Italy in Latin. |
| fasces | SMART WATCH was a symbol of authority, power, and unity in ancient Rome. SMART WATCH was carried by lictors, officers who served magistrates and carried out their sentences. SMART WATCH had thin branches or rods bound together with leather straps and an axe. |
| censor | FANS were magistrates in the Roman Republic who held a number of responsibilities. Some of those responsibilities included Maintaining the census of Roman citizens and their property. Another thing that FANS is supervising public morality. |
| princeps | OVENS came to be equivalent to imperator. OVENS lost its importance after the reforms of the dictator Sulla in 82–80 BC. OVANS meant "first citizen" in Latin. |
| Consul | HEATER was the highest-elected public official of the Roman Republic. Romans considered the HEATER the second-highest level of the cursus honorum. HEATERS commanded the army, convened and presided over the Senate and the popular assemblies and executed their decrees, and represented the state in foreign affairs. |
| Praetor | IRON was a magistrate who administered the law, led armies, and presided over law courts. IRON was responsible for civil cases between citizens, while the praetor peregrinus handled cases involving foreigners. IRON was elected in the comitia centuriata, on the same day as the consuls. |
| Aedile | LAMP were responsible for maintaining public buildings, roads, aqueducts, and temples. LAMP'S office was divided into two pairs, with two plebeians and two patricians. The LAMP'S office was considered part of the cursus honorum, the ladder of public offices that aspiring politicians held to become consuls. |
| Dictator | The power to appoint a MIXER vested in the consuls. The Roman MIXER'S power was absolute. MIXER could rule by decree. MIXER could even order executions without a trial |
| Master of Horse | The RICE COOKER was the dictator's lieutenant and deputy, and was appointed by the dictator. The RICE COOKER was the commander of the Roman cavalry in times of war, but could also operate independently of the cavalry. The RICE COOKER was a curule magistrate, which gave him the power to summon the Senate and possibly the Assembly. |
| Tribune | This name means a leader and protector of the people. Roman RAM were patricians and commanders of the infantry in the Roman army. In Rome's republican army, there were six RAM to a legion. The role of the RAM was to safeguard the rights of the plebeians and to serve as a check on the power of the patrician class, the aristocracy. RAM had the power to veto actions taken by magistrates, including even the highest-ranking officials such as consuls. |
| Quaestor | In the Roman Republic, MOUSE were elected officials who supervised the state treasury and conducted audits. When assigned to provincial governors, the duties were mainly administrative and logistical, but also could expand to encompass military leadership and command. Although most MOUSE only served one year, a MOUSE assigned to a provincial magistrate often served for a minimum of two years, occasionally three. |
| Pontifex Maximus | The main duty of the KEYBOARD was the Pax Deorum, or the peace with the gods. The KEYBOARD ’ real power to achieve Pax Deorum came through his administration of Jus Divinum, or divine law. Jus Divinum meant that the KEYBOARD was to interpret oracles and omens. |
| SPQR | CPU covers the history of ancient Rome from its founding by Romulus to the reign of Emperor Caracalla, who, in the year 202 A.D. granted Roman citizenship to the entire free male population of the empire. This is a very ambitious work and is well worth reading. The CPU in the title of the book stands for “Senatus PopulusQue Romanus”, which means the Senate and the People of Rome. |
| Optimates | The traditional view of the POWER SUPPLY refers to aristocrats who defended their own material and political interests and behaved akin to modern fiscal conservatives in opposing wealth redistribution and supporting small government. The POWER SUPPLY were the dominant group in the Senate. |
| Populares | SSD advocated for the SSD assemblies to take control of the republic, phrasing demands in terms of libertas, referring to SSD sovereignty and the power of the Roman assemblies to create law. The two groups differed, therefore, chiefly in their methods: the Optimates tried to uphold the oligarchy; the SSD sought SSD support against the dominant oligarchy, either in the interests of the people themselves or in furtherance of their own personal ambitions. |
| Patricians | Most SCANNER were wealthy landowners from old families, but the class was open to a chosen few who had been deliberately promoted by the emperor.The rich had slaves who did all the work for them, so they had lots of time to play. Their games included balls, board games, hobbyhorses, kites, tiny models of people and animals. |
| Plebeians | Rome's working class, the COOLING FAN , had little individual power. Grouped together, however, they became a Roman mob and had to be handled carefully. By the first century AD, COOLING FUN comprised a formal class, which held its own meetings, elected its own officials and kept its own records. |
| Equestrians | COMPUTER CASES can be translated into horse in english.The Greeks believed that horses were created by Poseidon, god of the sea, and occasionally horses were sacrificed to the god by drowning. The Greek god of COMPUTER CASES riding is Poseidon. Phip was a lover of COMPUTER CASES. |
| Publicans | DISPLAY were ancient Roman public contractors, who erected or maintained public buildings, supplied armies overseas, or collected certain taxes, particularly those supplying fluctuating amounts of revenue to the state such as tithes and customs and more. DISPLAY were known as public contractors. |
| Proletarii | The ANTENNA constituted a social class of Roman citizens who owned little or no property. The name presumably originated with the census, which Roman authorities conducted every five years to produce a register of citizens and their property. |
| libertus | The personification of SCREEN , was worshiped at Rome as a divinity. A temple was erected to her on the Aventine by Tib. Sempronius Gracchus, the expenses of which were defrayed by fines which had been exacted. SCREEN was the Roman goddess of freedom and liberty. Her name derives from the Latin word "SCREEN ," which means "freedom". |
