Quotes: A single king once ruled us; now two are set over us; a legate to tyrannise over our lives, a procurator to tyrannise over our property. Their quarrels and their harmony are alike ruinous to their subjects. The centurions of the one, the slaves of the other, combine violence with insult. Nothing is now safe from their avarice, nothing from their lust. In war it is the strong who plunders; now, it is for the most part by cowards and poltroons that our homes are rifled, our children torn from us, the conscription enforced, as though it were for our country alone that we could not die. Agr Chapter 15: Further problems in Britain (cont.)Robbers the of world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if he be poor, they lust for dominion; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. Agr Chapter 30: Agricola in Britain. Speech of Galcagus "Go," said he, "tell the Romans that it is the will of heaven that my Rome should be the head of all the world. Let them henceforth cultivate the arts of war, and let them know assuredly, and hand down the knowledge to posterity, that no human might can withstand the arms of Rome." Hor Book I Chapter 16: Disappearance of Romulus. He employed methods against it which were anything but Roman, namely, fraud and deceit Hor Book I Chapter 52: Treaty with the Latins. If you Romans choose to lord it over the world, does it follow that the world is to accept slavery? Ann Book XII Chapter 37: Problems in Britain. Caractacus (cont.) To these I give no bounded times or power, but empire without end. Vrg Book I Chapter 18: The future: Romulus, Julius Caesar. The Romans, masters of the whole round world, who, clad in peaceful toga, judge mankind. Vrg Book I Chapter 18: The future: Romulus, Julius Caesar. Their inborn activity of mind Hor Book XXIII Chapter 14: Hannibal marches against Nola. And the whole city was thrown into a state of alarm by the running up and down of persons who made vague additions to what they heard, and thus increased the confusion which the original intelligence created. Hor Book XXV Chapter 9: The conspiration is executed The Romans could not be diverted from Capua by the blockade of Rome, by their wives and children, whose lamentations could almost be heard from this place, by their altars, their hearths, the temples of their gods, and the sepulchres of their ancestors profaned and violated. So great was their avidity to bring us to punishment, so insatiable their thirst for drinking our blood. Hor Book XXV Chapter 13: The siege of Capua: the start. The Roman power would hardly have reached so high a pitch without a divinely ordered origin, attended with great and extraordinary circumstances. Plt Romulus, chapter 8: The Foundation of Rome (cont.) I see, even now, a city, destined for Phrygian descendants, than which none is greater, or shall be, or has been, in past ages. Other leaders will make her powerful, through the long centuries, but one, born of the blood of Iulus, will make her mistress of the world. Ovd Ovid XV Chapter 11: 418-452 Pythagoras' Teachings:Transfers of Power Rome, the capital of the world. Ovd Ovid XV Chapter 15: 622-744 Aesculapius, the god, saves Rome from plague Other links: Rome [AM] Rome [A] Meaning of letters between [ and ]: A: Roman remains. C: Coins. L: Links. M: Map. P: Peutinger
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Term referred to by name of the following persons: If the number following a name is identical to the number following another name, then the names refer to the same person. Furia of Rome(3006) Mary of Romans(1537) Cluentius of Rome(1838) Linus(421) Prisca(1295) Claudia(1491) Eubulus of Rome(1501) Felix of Rome(3525) Boniface of Rome(3526) Lucian of Rome(3528) Claudian of Rome(3529) Felix of Rome(3530) Valentinus of Rome(3606) Clement of Rome(179) Dionysius of Rome(182) Hippolytus of Rome(187) Priscilla(1547) Pudens of Rome(1550)
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