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  • "Petchenegs versus Byzantium," said Jimmy, one memorable day.†   (source)
  • If she visited the Bodleian Library, she found him thumbing through a volume of Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (which she had read in its entirety).†   (source)
  • / If your smoke was a Popsicle, I'd surely lick it / My rhymin' is old school, sort of like the ancient Romans / The Colonel's beats is sad like Arthur Miller's Willy Loman / Sometimes I'm accused of being a showman / ICanRhymeFast and I can rhyme slow, man."†   (source)
  • Name Wealth in Billions (USD) Origin C o m p a n y or Source of Wealth Andrew W. Mellon Henry Ford 188.8 United States Gulf Oil 188.1 United States Ford Motor Company Roman Senate Marcus Licinius Crassus Basil II Cornelius Vanderbilt Alanus Rufus 169.8 Roman Republic 9 10 169.4 167.4 Byzantine Empire Monarchy United States New York and Harlem Railroad Investments Pharaoh Earl of Surrey 11 12 13 166.9 England Ancient Egypt England Amenophis III 155.2 William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey William II of England Elizabeth I JohnD.†   (source)
  • It's as if it were stolen from ancient Rome or, at the very least, Capitol Hill.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 1 — AUGUST 24, AD 79 — 1:00 P.M. — THE CITY OF POMPEII, THE ROMAN EMPIRE   (source)
  • He quickly assembled everything on the list—The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, History of the Roman Republic, Volume One, and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker—and pulled out a large sheet of paper to wrap them in.†   (source)
  • SPQR—that's the motto of the old Roman Empire: Senatus Populusque Romanus, the Senate and the People of Rome.†   (source)
  • He says it's a gift to have crossed eyes because you're like a god looking two ways at once and if you had crossed eyes in the ancient Roman times you had no problem getting a good job.†   (source)
  • At the great wooden table where we had spent many a tedious hour studying algebra and the Holy Roman Empire, we now sat down to take stock.†   (source)
  • They chose a uniform style, neoclassical, meaning the buildings would have columns and pediments and evoke the glories of ancient Rome.†   (source)
  • The ancient Romans named the first month of our calendar after Janus, the god of two faces, the month of January looking back into the year gone by and forward into the one to come.†   (source)
  • Once it was in the Roman Empire, behind the paddle courts.†   (source)
  • The Oriental cults of the Roman Empire did it.†   (source)
  • The early Roman Republic was fed by its citizen-farmers; the Roman Empire, by its slaves.†   (source)
  • "It looks as if the ancient Romans built it," muttered Elinor.†   (source)
  • Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Rams, those are armies, too, military regimentation, experimentation, with Mr. Roman Gabriel as quarterback, Roman, Romans, Roman Empire, Colonel Sanders, Mr. Roman Gabriel designing a play in his dreams.†   (source)
  • When you're better, we'll finish Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • Through the decline and death of ancient Rome and Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire and the modern states…buried so deep and with such ceremoniousness and such unction and such evil that only a madman centuries later could discover the clues needed to uncover them, and see with horror what had been done.†   (source)
  • We have spoken of Ancient Rome, which gloried in titles such as the 'city of cities' and the 'hub of the universe.'†   (source)
  • That is one reason that per capita income in the West remained flat from the fall of the Roman Empire until about 1700.†   (source)
  • But the plot, he thought, wasn't quite exciting enough, so he'd tried to jazz it up using every idea he'd ever had, including a nuclear warhead hidden in San Francisco, a crooked cop who was witness to the JFK assassination, an Irish terrorist, the Mafia, a boy and his dog, an evil venture capitalist, and a time-traveling scientist who'd escaped the persecution of the Holy Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • The Catholic Church became part of the Holy Roman Empire …. and having Gnostic texts and beliefs were punishable by death.†   (source)
  • Gibbon, who was then putting the final touches to the first volume of his masterpiece, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, now felt even more confident about the course of history in his own time.†   (source)
  • After the Romans came the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic states, the trade empires of Italian city-states, and the Ottoman Empire, which did not disappear until the twentieth century, when the powerful nations of the European continent contrived to defeat and divide it.†   (source)
  • The road was empty; the only sounds were those of the wind and the steady clip of hoofs upon the ancient Roman stones.†   (source)
  • They were made out of ancient Roman coins.†   (source)
  • Nobody described his appearance as Latin, yet the word applied to him, not in its present, but in its original sense, not pertaining to Spain, but to ancient Rome.†   (source)
  • But there were other books; one was The Decline and Vail of the Roman Empire … and there were authors like Shelley and Byron that Granma hadn't known about, but the librarian sent them, along.†   (source)
  • Yes, Mr. McLean, and Gibbon wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • Ancient Rome was the first true Babel.†   (source)
  • To hear them you would have thought that Aix-enProvence was not only the capital of France and perhaps even Europe (or at least the Holy Roman Empire), but a French Valhalla.†   (source)
  • Returning Crusaders brought back to their womenfolk not only their vanquished enemy's gold, but also beauty tips from the ladies of the Orient, including pubic shaving (not heard of in most parts of Europe since the age of the early Roman Empire).†   (source)
  • And the Roman republic never got tired of war and conquest.†   (source)
  • The apostle Paul was writing about the Roman Empire, but he might as well have been talking about present-day America.†   (source)
  • Eve thought she looked like one of the ancient Roman goddesses, but her mythology was too sketchy to choose which one.†   (source)
  • It was practiced superbly by the early Christians, who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks rather than submit to certain unjust laws of the Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • Besieged, plundered, captured and recaptured, Jerusalem had been ruled by Jebusites, Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and, of course, the Jews.†   (source)
  • In his white shirt, tie and best jacket, he was as impressive as any Montreal executive, and cast in bronze his head would not have been out of place in that museum room reserved for the busts of the ancient Romans.†   (source)
  • But yesterday was a past period in history, with laws and rules archaic as ancient Rome's.†   (source)
  • Duke Angelo, and masquerading as a special courier of the Thurn and Taxis family, who at the time held a postal monopoly throughout most of the Holy Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • I read the early and then the later poems all in the same one afternoon, standing up, by the window ... I read 'Sailing to Byzantium,' standing up in the stacks, read it by the light of falling snow.†   (source)
  • They were well toward middle age when Caesar destroyed the Roman republic in the process of saving it.†   (source)
  • I walked her back toward the Washington Monument and lectured her on the Egyptian obelisk and phallic symbols and classical mythology and ancient Rome and the difference between the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire and the nobility of men like Cincinnatus, emphasizing that he was the man for whom Cincinnati was named, while Troy, New York, was named after a mythical city in Homer, and Cairo, Illinois, after a real city in Egypt.†   (source)
  • An ancient Roman writer had written that out of Africa there was "always something new"—semper aliquid novi.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't be "cheating" Uncle Sugar; the USA had no more moral claim on that money (if I won) than I had on the Holy Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • But that he should actually have been here and resisted the temptation to have a look at us-it's inconceivablel It's beyond me, it isn't natural, it's like the ancient Roman virtue, one of those newfangled ideas.†   (source)
  • Farther back is a large, glassed-in bookcase with sets of Dumas, Victor Hugo, Charles Lever, three sets of Shakespeare, The World's Best Literature in fifty large volumes, Hume's History of England, Thiers' History of the Consulate and Empire, Smollett's History of England, Gibbons Roman Empire and miscellaneous volumes of old plays, poetry, and several histories of Ireland.†   (source)
  • But sometimes he would ask, in the middle of a sentence? concerned, possibly, with ancient Rome: "Little-bit? d'you love me?†   (source)
  • The interior of the giant terminal was a replica of the mighty Baths of Caracalla in ancient Rome.†   (source)
  • They created markers that faded into the backdrop of ancient Rome.†   (source)
  • Tata was born in Germania, a kingdom just beyond the northern boundaries of this vast Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • The Byzantines were slaughtered, because that was what Petchenegs did, Jimmy explained.†   (source)
  • In ancient Rome, the leaders of conquered nations were put on display at the Circus.†   (source)
  • "At least, that's what it meant in ancient Rome."†   (source)
  • They took revenge when they conquered the Greek isles, and made them part of the Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • But the old Roman Empire was gradually divided into three different cultures.†   (source)
  • The elite imperial bodyguards had been cold-blooded death reapers in ancient Rome.†   (source)
  • From the year 380 Christianity was the official religion throughout the entire Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • The early Roman Republic was fed by its citizen-farmers; the Roman Empire, by its slaves.†   (source)
  • "You're saying the emperors of ancient Rome are alive?†   (source)
  • However, North Africa and the Middle East had also been part of the Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • The territory that was once the Roman Empire is not only the birthplace of the gods.†   (source)
  • I wondered if the Roman Empire had used chariot salesmen, and if Mad Claude had been one.†   (source)
  • I know more about the fall of the Roman Empire than the Romans did.†   (source)
  • I bet the ancient Romans hated togas as much as we do.†   (source)
  • Why had Ovid lived in Ancient Rome in 20 BCE and not Chicago in 2006 CE?†   (source)
  • She limped toward the nearest tapestry—a cityscape of Ancient Rome.†   (source)
  • "Almost to the end of the Roman Empire," Frank agreed.†   (source)
  • The other road led north into the city, a miniature version of Ancient Rome.†   (source)
  • So did Ovid matter because he was Ovid or because he lived in Ancient Rome?†   (source)
  • She'd explained that she was one of the guardian spirits of Ancient Rome.†   (source)
  • It took a lot of imagination to see it as the bustling center of Ancient Rome.†   (source)
  • I think, like in the days of the Roman Empire, one of Pericylmenus's descendants served in a legion.†   (source)
  • Shrines like this were all over the place in Ancient Rome.†   (source)
  • The Twelfth Legion was around for the entire Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • One statue of some Ancient Roman dude seemed to be pointing to a nearby McDonald's.†   (source)
  • It's what the Ancient Romans called the Mediterranean."†   (source)
  • I lost eight centuries once, missed most of the Byzantine Empire.†   (source)
  • He was standing at Ancient Roman mission control.†   (source)
  • Everything that we now discuss about the Roman Republic is only a continuation of Mommsen.†   (source)
  • Do we really know the history of the Roman Empire?†   (source)
  • The neoclassical architecture is meticulously designed to echo the grandeur of ancient Rome, whose ideals were the inspiration for America's founders in establishing the laws and culture of the new republic.†   (source)
  • The daughters put all kinds of things into their albums, little scraps of cloth from their dresses, little snippets of ribbon, pictures cut from magazines — the Ruins of Ancient Rome, the Picturesque Monasteries of the French Alps, Old London Bridge, Niagara Falls in summer and in winter, — which is a thing I would like to see as all say it is very impressive, and portraits of Lady This and Lord That from England.†   (source)
  • You think these men are ancient Romans?†   (source)
  • I wasn't that great on ancient history, but I was pretty sure the Roman Empire never made it as far as Long Island.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, establishing Christ's divinity was critical to the further unification of the Roman empire and to the new Vatican power base.†   (source)
  • Through the decline and death of ancient Rome and Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire and the modern states...buried so deep and with such ceremoniousness and such unction and such evil that only a madman centuries later could discover the clues needed to uncover them, and see with horror what had been done.†   (source)
  • Name Wealth in Billions (USD) Origin C o m p a n y or Source of Wealth Andrew W. Mellon Henry Ford 188.8 United States Gulf Oil 188.1 United States Ford Motor Company Roman Senate Marcus Licinius Crassus Basil II Cornelius Vanderbilt Alanus Rufus 169.8 Roman Republic 9 10 169.4 167.4 Byzantine Empire Monarchy United States New York and Harlem Railroad Investments Pharaoh Earl of Surrey 11 12 13 166.9 England Ancient Egypt England Amenophis III 155.2 William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey William II of England Elizabeth I JohnD.†   (source)
  • Every house has scores of incandescent bulbs powered by alternating current, both of which first proved themselves worthy of large-scale use at the fair; and nearly every town of any size has its little bit of ancient Rome, some beloved and be-columned bank, library or post office.†   (source)
  • From the scarified Nubian priests of 2000 B.C., to the tattooed acolytes of the Cybele cult of ancient Rome, to the moko scars of the modern Maori, humans have tattooed themselves as a way of offering up their bodies in partial sacrifice, enduring the physical pain of embellishment and emerging changed beings.†   (source)
  • They'd just started volume two of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire the evening before she was admitted to the hospital.†   (source)
  • He could be anywhere in the vast Roman Empire by now, from the rocky cliffs of Britannia to the deserts of Africa.†   (source)
  • The style you fight in, with two curved blades, is the style of a dimachaerus, a gladiator from the late Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • The Arabic influence came from the Arabs in Spain, the Greek influence from Greece and the Byzantine Empire.†   (source)
  • Around three in the morning the Christian church was more or less banned, but by A.D. 313 it was an accepted religion in the Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • I missed the whole Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • In 395 the Roman Empire was divided in two—a Western Empire with Rome as its center, and an Eastern Empire with the new city of Constantinople as its capital.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the Kingdom of God is more or less clearly present in the Church, and the Kingdom of the World is present in the State—for example, in the Roman Empire, which was in decline at the time of St. Augustine.†   (source)
  • Didn't the Roman Empire fall?†   (source)
  • It was clever, Max acknowledged, but now they were required to cross an ancient Roman bridge for entry, and a narrow way was easily guarded.†   (source)
  • But Max would not relent, and at last the witch told him to continue northeast until he arrived at the ruins of a road—an ancient Roman road that had survived the Fading.†   (source)
  • Early archaeologists had poured plaster into the holes and made these casts—creepy replicas of Ancient Romans.†   (source)
  • For example, the Roman republic had two legislatures, which had different opposite interests: the patrician and the plebian.†   (source)
  • Reyna knew that Ancient Romans had spent at least half their time fighting each other, but she decided not to bring that up.†   (source)
  • We might be surprised that disagreements between Consuls were not more frequent or more fatal, until we remember the Roman republic's almost constant situation.†   (source)
  • Reyna herself was only now getting used to it, and she was pretty sure the statue did not appreciate being relocated in the middle of an ancient Roman city.†   (source)
  • The eagle was so important … well, archaeologists have never recovered a single eagle from ancient Rome.†   (source)
  • He'd thought his trip to Alaska had been pretty exotic, but now he was in the heart of the old Roman Empire, enemy territory for a Greek demigod.†   (source)
  • She'd never liked monster class—reading Pliny the Elder and those other musty authors who described legendary monsters from the edges of the Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • That meant other people had been down here more recently than the Roman Empire, but Piper wasn't reassured.†   (source)
  • Frank didn't understand how he could have evolved from a line like that, or how his family had migrated from Greece through the Roman Empire all the way to China, but some unsettling ideas were starting to form.†   (source)
  • It was called Byzantium.†   (source)
  • Below, she saw a mosaic floor decorated with deer and fauns—maybe a room from an Ancient Roman villa, just stashed away under this modern basement along with the crates of string and plastic swords.†   (source)
  • To their right, snaking along the top of a hill, was a long brick wall with notches at the top for archers—maybe a medieval defensive line, maybe Ancient Roman.†   (source)
  • She guessed that the pipes were drains, part of the Ancient Roman plumbing system, though it was amazing to her that a tunnel like this had survived, crowded underground with all the other centuries' worth of pipes, basements, and sewers.†   (source)
  • The Globetrotters were playing in County Hall in Charleston, a large, sterile arena that looked like a throwback to the declining years of the Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • I walked her back toward the Washington Monument and lectured her on the Egyptian obelisk and phallic symbols and classical mythology and ancient Rome and the difference between the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire and the nobility of men like Cincinnatus, emphasizing that he was the man for whom Cincinnati was named, while Troy, New York, was named after a mythical city in Homer, and Cairo, Illinois, after a real city in Egypt.†   (source)
  • And with the end of the Holy Roman Empire, the fountainhead of Thurn and Taxis legitimacy is lost forever among the other splendid delusions.†   (source)
  • I walked her back toward the Washington Monument and lectured her on the Egyptian obelisk and phallic symbols and classical mythology and ancient Rome and the difference between the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire and the nobility of men like Cincinnatus, emphasizing that he was the man for whom Cincinnati was named, while Troy, New York, was named after a mythical city in Homer, and Cairo, Illinois, after a real city in Egypt.†   (source)
  • According to the recently discovered and decrypted journals of the Comte Raoul Antoine de Vouziers, Marquis de Tour et Tassis, one element among the Tristero had never accepted the passing of the Holy Roman Empire, and saw the Revolution as a temporary madness.†   (source)
  • "He approves of the mingling of the peoples and their bonds of union": that was what the words meant, and again they were very old words, from the days of ancient Rome.†   (source)
  • He believed that there was magic in Byzantium, and genii stoppered up in wizards' bottles.†   (source)
  • What if some time an army of them marches on the land as the Lombards did in Italy, as the Germans did on Gaul and the Turks did on Byzantium?†   (source)
  • In Corinth or Byzantium.†   (source)
  • His face did not belong to modern civilization, but to ancient Rome; the face of an eternal patrician.†   (source)
  • He was able to tell you how fast pests multiplied, how much putty to buy for a piece of glazing, the right prices of nails or clothesline or fuses and many such things; as much as any ancient Roman senator knew of husbandry before such concerns came to be thought wrong.†   (source)
  • The lines quoted from Yeats referred to Byzantium, which is very close to Alexandria; and in a sense this imitation of imitating is a superior sort of Alexandrianism.†   (source)
  • His scientific precision was impeccable and his erudition astounding; no one could refute him on the cooking utensils of Babylon or the doormats of Byzantium.†   (source)
  • And had the ancient Romans suffered from the same madness?†   (source)
  • She, whose only peer was the Holy Roman Empire, she shall rank with Guatemala and Belgium perhaps!†   (source)
  • 'One reads of frog-showers in the time of the ancient Romans.'†   (source)
  • A man Caesar[200] is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • One to one, my countrymen—one to one, for love of our ancient Roman name.†   (source)
  • "I can read the back of this,—'History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'†   (source)
  • A four of Dicaeus the Byzantine—two black, one gray, one bay; winners this year at Byzantium.†   (source)
  • In my opinion the Roman Catholic religion is not a faith at all, but simply a continuation of the Roman Empire, and everything is subordinated to this idea—beginning with faith.†   (source)
  • When my father remonstrated, Andrew actually told him to his face that history tells us of only two successful institutions: one the Undershaft firm, and the other the Roman Empire under the Antonines.†   (source)
  • On the blank wall at my left the dark, old-fashioned wall-paper was covered by a large map of ancient Rome, the work of some German scholar.†   (source)
  • I reviewed rapidly the whole period of history from the fall of the Roman Empire to the eighteenth century, and in English literature studied critically Milton's poems and "Areopagitica."†   (source)
  • He thought the city of the ancient Romans a little vulgar, finding distinction only in the decadence of the Empire; but the Rome of the Popes appealed to his sympathy, and in his chosen words, quite exquisitely, there appeared a rococo beauty.†   (source)
  • Charles Lamb, with his infinite tact, attempting to, might have drawn charming pictures of the life of his day; Lord Byron in a stanza of Don Juan, aiming at the impossible, might have achieved the sublime; Oscar Wilde, heaping jewels of Ispahan upon brocades of Byzantium, might have created a troubling beauty.†   (source)
  • You are worried about that universal impediment because you recognize the rotten imperium of which it is the capital, as a mummified version of the Holy Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • For Herr Settembrini belonged to the Francophile party in his homeland, which was in no way astonishing when one recalls that his grandfather had equated the days of the July Revolution with the days of Creation; but a pact between that enlightened republic and Scythian Byzantium was a moral embarrassment to him—his chest felt constricted, but then, at the thought of the strategic significance of those railroads, it would try to expand and take in rapid breaths of hope and joy.†   (source)
  • Here, among pillows enough for six, I soon fell asleep in a blissful condition, and dreamed of ancient Rome, Steerforth, and friendship, until the early morning coaches, rumbling out of the archway underneath, made me dream of thunder and the gods.†   (source)
  • "A regular Roman nose," he used to say, "with my goiter I've quite the countenance of an ancient Roman patrician of the decadent period."†   (source)
  • Henrietta Stackpole was struck with the fact that ancient Rome had been paved a good deal like New York, and even found an analogy between the deep chariot-ruts traceable in the antique street and the overjangled iron grooves which express the intensity of American life.†   (source)
  • I am so rich, I could have given bid for bid with the wealthiest Praetorians at the auction of the Roman empire (which was the world's); and yet I owe for the flesh in the tongue I brag with.†   (source)
  • 'That's what it was, sir,' rejoined Snawley; 'the elevated feeling, the feeling of the ancient Romans and Grecians, and of the beasts of the field and birds of the air, with the exception of rabbits and tom-cats, which sometimes devour their offspring.†   (source)
  • We in Russia refuse to see that we are the heirs of Byzantium," and he launched into a long and heated explanation of his views.†   (source)
  • He had really been brighter, and had got through his lessons better, since she had been there; and she had asked Mr. Stelling so many questions about the Roman Empire, and whether there really ever was a man who said, in Latin, "I would not buy it for a farthing or a rotten nut," or whether that had only been turned into Latin, that Tom had actually come to a dim understanding of the fact that there had once been people upon the earth who were so fortunate as to know Latin without…†   (source)
  • Because the civilization of ancient Rome perished in consequence of the invasion of the barbarians, we are perhaps too apt to think that civilization cannot perish in any other manner.†   (source)
  • To cause constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand army, to make its legions fly forth over all the earth, as a mountain sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike with lightning, to be in Europe a sort of nation gilded through glory, to sound athwart the centuries a trumpet-blast of Titans, to…†   (source)
  • Recollect the ancient Romans of the Circus, and the sports where they killed three hundred lions and a hundred men.†   (source)
  • I'll give thee, good fellow, a twelvemonth or twain, To search Europe through, from Byzantium to Spain; But ne'er shall you find, should you search till you tire, So happy a man as the Barefooted Friar.†   (source)
  • In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.†   (source)
  • I also noticed some wrasse known as the tapiro, three decimeters long, bony fish with transparent scales whose bluish gray color is mixed with red spots; they're enthusiastic eaters of marine vegetables, which gives them an exquisite flavor; hence these tapiro were much in demand by the epicures of ancient Rome, and their entrails were dressed with brains of peacock, tongue of flamingo, and testes of moray to make that divine platter that so enraptured the Roman emperor Vitellius.†   (source)
  • ]] No event can be compared with this continuous removal of the human race, except perhaps those irruptions which preceded the fall of the Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • ——Yes," he continued, pacing up and down the little platform, with an animation in which he seemed to lose all consciousness of Rebecca's presence——"Yes, my deeds, my danger, my blood, made the name of Adelaide de Montemare known from the court of Castile to that of Byzantium.†   (source)
  • *k [Footnote i: We learn from President Jefferson's "Notes upon Virginia," p.148, that among the Iroquois, when attacked by a superior force, aged men refused to fly or to survive the destruction of their country; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls.†   (source)
  • …green) that actually respond to tinkling handbells, splendid diamond–shaped turbot that were like aquatic pheasants with yellowish fins stippled in brown and the left topside mostly marbled in brown and yellow, finally schools of wonderful red mullet, real oceanic birds of paradise that ancient Romans bought for as much as 10,000 sesterces apiece, and which they killed at the table, so they could heartlessly watch it change color from cinnabar red when alive to pallid white when dead.†   (source)
  • When the pagan Roman Empire desired to become Christian, it inevitably happened that, by becoming Christian, it included the Church but remained a pagan State in very many of its departments.†   (source)
  • Locusta and Agrippina, living at the same time, were an exception, and proved the determination of providence to effect the entire ruin of the Roman empire, sullied by so many crimes.†   (source)
  • Why should we not spend the last three hours remaining to us of life, like those ancient Romans, who when condemned by Nero, their emperor and heir, sat down at a table covered with flowers, and gently glided into death, amid the perfume of heliotropes and roses?†   (source)
  • She proved to be a transport just from Byzantium, and from her commander he learned the particulars of which he stood in most need.†   (source)
  • "Nay," said Isaac, releasing his hold, "it grieveth me as much to see the drops of his blood, as if they were so many golden byzants from mine own purse; and I well know, that the lessons of Miriam, daughter of the Rabbi Manasses of Byzantium whose soul is in Paradise, have made thee skilful in the art of healing, and that thou knowest the craft of herbs, and the force of elixirs.†   (source)
  • Yesterday word came to Rome that, with a fleet, they had rowed down the Bosphorus, sunk the galleys off Byzantium and Chalcedon, swept the Propontis, and, still unsated, burst through into the Aegean.†   (source)
  • (*) Maximilian I, born in 1459, died 1519, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • When Mr Balfour replied to the allegations that the Roman Empire sank under the weight of its military obligations, he said that this was 'wholly unhistorical.'†   (source)
  • The philhellenic elites of the Roman Empire, for whom Greek was virtually a second language, used Homer's texts as a staple of higher education and ranked the heroic epic as the noblest of poetic genres.†   (source)
  • The Greek poems themselves, continuously transcribed and studied in Byzantium, reasserted their presence in Western Europe from the early Renaissance, first in Latin translations for writers like Boccaccio and Chaucer, and finally in the first published Greek text, printed at Florence in 1488.†   (source)
  • And if the first disaster to the Roman Empire(*) should be examined, it will be found to have commenced only with the enlisting of the Goths; because from that time the vigour of the Roman Empire began to decline, and all that valour which had raised it passed away to others.†   (source)
  • …soldiers in a far less degree, because, notwithstanding one has to give them some indulgence, that is soon done; none of these princes have armies that are veterans in the governance and administration of provinces, as were the armies of the Roman Empire; and whereas it was then more necessary to give satisfaction to the soldiers than to the people, it is now more necessary to all princes, except the Turk and the Soldan, to satisfy the people rather the soldiers, because the people are…†   (source)
  • As it happened, I found him barely a mile beyond the gates of the monastery, sitting on one of the ancient Roman mile-markers that dotted the roads.†   (source)
  • You bloody old Roman empire?†   (source)
  • A most interesting discussion took place in the ancient hall of Brian O'ciarnain's in Sraid na Bretaine Bheag, under the auspices of Sluagh na h-Eireann, on the revival of ancient Gaelic sports and the importance of physical culture, as understood in ancient Greece and ancient Rome and ancient Ireland, for the development of the race.†   (source)
  • the great seas and the bay of Bengal, The flowing literatures, tremendous epics, religions, castes, Old occult Brahma interminably far back, the tender and junior Buddha, Central and southern empires and all their belongings, possessors, The wars of Tamerlane,the reign of Aurungzebe, The traders, rulers, explorers, Moslems, Venetians, Byzantium, the Arabs, Portuguese, The first travelers famous yet, Marco Polo, Batouta the Moor, Doubts to be solv'd, the map incognita, blanks to be fill'd, The foot of man unstay'd, the hands never at rest, Thyself O soul that will not brook a challenge.†   (source)
  • SCENE: Dispersed, in several parts of the Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • The Roman Empire was foreordained and established for this end.†   (source)
  • And yet these two legislatures coexisted for ages, and the Roman republic attained to the utmost height of human greatness.†   (source)
  • To which Don Quixote replied, "She is not of the ancient Roman Curtii, Caii, or Scipios, nor of the modern Colonnas or Orsini, nor of the Moncadas or Requesenes of Catalonia, nor yet of the Rebellas or Villanovas of Valencia; Palafoxes, Nuzas, Rocabertis, Corellas, Lunas, Alagones, Urreas, Foces, or Gurreas of Aragon; Cerdas, Manriques, Mendozas, or Guzmans of Castile; Alencastros, Pallas, or Meneses of Portugal; but she is of those of El Toboso of La Mancha, a lineage that though…†   (source)
  • The antient Law of Rome was called their Civil Law, from the word Civitas, which signifies a Common-wealth; And those Countries, which having been under the Roman Empire, and governed by that Law, retaine still such part thereof as they think fit, call that part the Civill Law, to distinguish it from the rest of their own Civill Lawes.†   (source)
  • The dearest friend to me, the kindest man, The best condition'd and unwearied spirit In doing courtesies; and one in whom The ancient Roman honour more appears Than any that draws breath in Italy.†   (source)
  • I shall onely adde this, that the Writings of Schoole-Divines, are nothing else for the most part, but insignificant Traines of strange and barbarous words, or words otherwise used, then in the common use of the Latine tongue; such as would pose Cicero, and Varro, and all the Grammarians of ancient Rome.†   (source)
  • It is well known that in the Roman republic the legislative authority, in the last resort, resided for ages in two different political bodies not as branches of the same legislature, but as distinct and independent legislatures, in each of which an opposite interest prevailed: in one the patrician; in the other, the plebian.†   (source)
  • And the practise hereof hath been seen on divers occasions; as in the Deposing of Chilperique, King of France; in the Translation of the Roman Empire to Charlemaine; in the Oppression of John King of England; in Transferring the Kingdome of Navarre; and of late years, in the League against Henry the third of France, and in many more occurrences.†   (source)
  • And whereas in the planting of Christian Religion, the Oracles ceased in all parts of the Roman Empire, and the number of Christians encreased wonderfully every day, and in every place, by the preaching of the Apostles, and Evangelists; a great part of that successe, may reasonably be attributed, to the contempt, into which the Priests of the Gentiles of that time, had brought themselves, by their uncleannesse, avarice, and jugling between Princes.†   (source)
  • …yet if by Bishop of Rome bee understood either the Monarch of the Church, or the Supreme Pastor of it; not Silvester, but Constantine (who was the first Christian Emperour) was that Bishop; and as Constantine, so all other Christian Emperors were of Right supreme Bishops of the Roman Empire; I say of the Roman Empire, not of all Christendome: For other Christian Soveraigns had the same Right in their severall Territories, as to an Office essentially adhaerent to their Soveraignty.†   (source)
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