The Roman Hippodrome was AFAIK much more popular and used almost every day. It was also much, much bigger.
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The circus Maximus was also flooded for naval battles.
>Place is called HIPPOdrome
>Look inside
>Horses
Fucking barbarians not knowing Latin and Greek. Literally means horse racing course
Yes, but where are the hippos?
In the drome you pleb!
They are in Man Vs Beast
Yeah, but if they'd had any imagination,they could have flooded it and had hippo races!
Losers.
Tfw "hippo" literally means "horse"
But horse-apotamus makes no sense (unless "apotamus" means "big fat") - I'm not the most cunning of linguists.
Hippo = horse
Potamus = river
Water horse
Explain seahorses, then, if you're so smart.
They're so cute, I love em
Literally what it's called in slovenian. Povodni konj
Hippothetically
I laughed
They both have the Bread & Circuses update.
If they had invented roller skates, they could have used the hippodrome for roller derby. Imagine that shit. Roman gladiatorial roller derby.
Homo means gay, trans means changed sex and hippo means fat, semi aquatic mammal.
Not to confuse anyone. English laziness strikes again!
homo means same, trans means across/other side, hippo means horse.
Yeah I was being sarcastic sorry. People go around saying stuff like "are you a homo?" And "look at that hippo!" We know what they mean, but they're not saying what they think they're saying
hippo means fat, semi aquatic manual.
Is there an automatic version?
Oops, mammal. Also, I think some didn't know I was being sarcastic and mocking our general lack of understanding of roots.
Like taters and carrots and onions? Oh I understand roots, alrighty.
No no, like square and cube
Noooooooo, that was a nightmare, it wasnt real. I dreamt I had to stay up late last night help my teen with math, taking derivatives of negative and fractional exponents