Quotes About Roman

Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that's what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It gives him courage.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Well, whatever one thinks of the Roman Church, it is a worthy and powerful foe. I could accept that sort of conversion with grace. But I shall be very disappointed indeed if we lose him to the Presbyterians.

Germania of Tacitus

in 212 A.D. making citizens of all freemen in the Empire

The Roman law had recognized a practice called precarium, by which persons lived on the lands of another without any written lease or agreement, but as tenants at will.

And his rage rises to a white heat against certain nobles of Treves who, after the city had been burned and sacked thrice, could still ask the emperors for circuses. "Where would you hold these public spectacles?" he asks, – "Over the graves and ashes, the bones and blood of the dead?" In another passage he gives us briefly the conclusion of the whole matter: "The whole Roman world is in misery and yet is luxurious. . . . It is dying and it laughs.

Three Roman governments were established, for the provinces of Gallia Celtica (with the headquarters of the Governor General in Lyon), Gallia Belgica, corresponding roughly to what is now Belgium, and Aquitania in the south-west corner;

The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what is fitting.

No cabe duda de que el panteón druídico incluye gran cantidad de deidades griegas y romanas, lo cual dejó pasmado a César durante su conquista de Britania y la Galia y lo hizo afirmar que aquellas tribus adoraban a Mercurio, Apolo, Marte y Júpiter de una manera similar a la de los países latinos.

Only a few got to indulge in the pretence that they were part of a Roman elite.

in AD 286 it was split

and by the end of the fifth century they had conquered three-quarters of the old Roman province,

Æthelberht had a Christian queen and a renovated Roman city as his capital.

elements of Roman social organization may have been adopted by the Saxons

everybody living in the empire was considered a Roman citizen,

Legionary fortresses, each capable of accommodating thousands of men,

were established at Caerleon, Chester and York, and from these main bases an extensive network of garrison forts

In AD 122, the emperor Hadrian visited Britain

I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.

This is the fantasy of every woman - to hold at our feet servile and tame slaves, like in Roman times. And the worse we treat them, the more passionate they become.

I am a Roman citizen.

of Alcohol— but please, be careful how you tell of them, remember Ovid shivering on the Black Sea shores, wondering how to get back in to one of the Roman villas once again. November

Roman engineering The Romans accomplished amazing feats of engineering as they built roads, bridges, and aqueducts (bridges for water conduits) across their empire. This 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct at Segovia, in central Spain, has 128 arches. No mortar was used to cement the large blocks of granite together. Good roads were one of the reasons for the success of the Roman Empire. They allowed troops and supplies to be moved swiftly, before the enemy could either attack or escape.