Quotes About Roman

river Rubicon in northern Italy, which separated his province of Cisalpine Gaul from Roman territory proper.

Direct taxation for Roman citizens living in Italy was abolished.

The main trouble with the Roman constitution was that it contained too many checks and balances, whether to restrain ambitious power-seekers or to protect ordinary citizens from the executive. It is somewhat surprising that anything was ever decided.

Menodorus delivered to Octavian Sardinia and Corsica, three legions, and some light-armed troops.

following him during the years when he won one victory after another over incompetently led Roman legions.

he married Atia, a member of the Julian family.

he made no attempt to recover Germania as a Roman province, and the empire was never again to reach beyond the Rhine.

Although sleeping with men was apparently not to his taste, Octavian had no objection to multifarious lifestyles among members of his circle.

he may also have received, or seized, tax receipts from Asia on their way to the Roman treasury

Instead of winding and skirting, Roman roads tend to go straight to the top. The chariots were light and the shortest distance between two points seemed to have governed their surveyors. I've read that some of their roadbeds go down twelve feet.

For as he told the story of a simple Judean slave girl. Marcus Lucianus Valerian, a Roman who didn't believe in anything, proclaimed the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman commands because the latter are always presented as tests of their loyalty to the Pope and of their absolute acceptance of his teaching authority, or Magisterium.

A commission arrived at Corinth headed by the victorious Roman general Titus Quinctius Flamininus.

Heraclius made a humiliating offer of peace. If it had been accepted, it would have turned the Roman state into a Persian vassal.

The army mustered by this new Macedonian Perseus, in 171 BCE, according to the Roman historian Livy

Constantinople had been saved, and with it the Greek-speaking Roman Empire.

The whole of the Middle East, up to the River Tigris, was returned to Roman rule.

Heraclius became the first ruler of a 'Roman' empire to revive the long-disused Greek word for 'king', basileus.

Hagia Sophia successfully marries the old Greek science of theoretical geometry to Roman skills of practical engineering

the Greek-speaking Roman Empire after the death of Heraclius in 641 had turned into the Byzantine.

Individuals capture attention and engross history, but the most revolutionary changes in Roman politics were the work of families or of a few men.

The last year of Cicero's life, full of glory and eloquence no doubt, was ruinous to the Roman People.

Like his heroes, the men in the Cuchullain sagas fight from light chariots, drawn by two ponies, and we know that so fought the tribes in Scotland encountered by Agricola the Roman General (81-85 A.D.) It is even said in the Irish epics that Cuchullain learned his chariotry in Alba—that is, in our Scotland.

To ACCUMB  (ACCU'MB)   v.a.[accumbo, Lat.] To lie at the table, according to the ancient manner.Dict.   ACCUMBENT  (ACCU'MBENT)   adj.[accumbens, Lat.]Leaning. The Roman recumbent, or, more properly, accumbent posture in eating, was introduced after the first Punic war.Arbuthnoton Coins.