mkg335:
On the other hand, I've read reports that Roman soldiers would occasionally pour copious amounts of wine into a comrade (wasn't that difficult to get him to keep drinking) and then stick a sword in his belly just to watch the wine pour out and maybe drink a bit of it themselves.
We have an expression in Scotland for being drunk, it's 'half cut'.
We must have heard the phrase being spoken on the other side of Hadrians wall.
And there's another myth, there were Roman settlements all across Scotland. There's a road, a river crossing and a fort around my town alone, they went as far North as Aberdeen.
My guess is the Romans actually built the wall to keep the English out.