[Avodah] everyone is a liar

[Zev Sero]

Arie Folger wrote:
> RZS wrote:
>>  In Chazal's day a road was
>> a road, it came about long ago in a single event,
>> and it would be a road forever more.

> Actually, that is incorrect. I grant you that many roads were
> unplanned, but as is evident even from the Gemara Shabbat 33b, where
> the Romans' infrastructure building, including bridges and
> marketplaces, is discussed by Rashbi and some colleague Tannaim, in
> Chazal's days, infrastructure was surely planned and executed by the
> government.

The Romans, yes; but that was precisely one of their major inventions
that allowed them to establish and control an empire greater than any
previous one, for far longer than anyone before them ever managed.
And there aren't many Roman roads in EY.  The standard road that Chazal
discuss is a pre-Roman cow path, or even one that arose in the old way
during Roman times.  "Sratia gedolah haholechet me'ir le'ir" is surely
a Roman road, as indicated by the use of the Latin word for it.

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