>Place is called HIPPOdrome
>Look inside
>Horses
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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
The Roman Hippodrome was AFAIK much more popular and used almost every day. It was also much, much bigger.
The circus Maximus was also flooded for naval battles.
If they had invented roller skates, they could have used the hippodrome for roller derby. Imagine that shit. Roman gladiatorial roller derby.
They both have the Bread & Circuses update.
