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Originally Posted by Matthew138
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Spiers: You wanna know if they're true or not. The stories about me? Did you ever notice with stories like that, everyone says they heard it from someone who was there. Then when you ask that person, they say they heard it from someone who was there. It's nothing new really. I bet if you went back two thousand years, you'd hear a couple centurions standing around yakking about how Tercius lopped off the heads of some Carthaginian prisoners.
Carwood Lipton: Well, maybe they kept talking about it because they never heard Tercius deny it.
Spiers: Maybe that's because Tercius knew there was some value to the men thinking he was the meanest, toughest sonofabitch in the whole Roman Legion.
I think that explains it pretty much...
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Well that very dialogue is the very reason I wrote insinuated and not confirmed. Although, I always thought it could be taken as either a denial or as a brilliant way of avoiding answering the question. Honestly, I don't think I'd tell a superior officer if I really did it.