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I had come to Rome in chains, but I would leave Rome a queen. — Stephanie Dray

Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room — John Barrowman

They say the eyes are the apertures to the soul. If that is so, I feared Locusta's soul was far darker than even Nero's. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Rome versus the Visigoths, Ancient Egypt versus the Hyksos, Aztecs versus the Spaniards. — Margaret Atwood

In the long run, the fall of one civilization is very much like the fall of another. Only the land remains. — Morgan Llywelyn

a poker-rectumed pillar of the establishment [Marcus Corvinus on a Roman Senator] — David Wishart

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West. — Caroline Lawrence

Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome. — Henry Fuseli

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today. — Arthur Erickson

In an empire as unruly as Rome, it is quite easy to get away with something as thespian as murder. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Every day you live is a lesson in itself. — T.A. Uner

The dumb masses were always the easiest to persuade. The bread-and-circus concept had worked in ancient Rome, and it still worked today. — James Garmisch

Given of the god,
Given to the god,
Taken by the god in valour, honour and glory.
May you journey safely to your destination. — M.C. Scott

Today, as in ancient Rome, when all avenues of success have been traveled and all prizes won, the final prize is the delusion of godhead. — David Mamet

Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere). — Mary Beard

I found out later than even an education and a cushioned introduction to power cannot make a great leader. — Fredrik Nath

Most women run from danger like mice from a cat. You turn into a lion and take whatever comes. [Aurelia as seen by her brother.] — Jane Finnis

[Christians] are people such as the world has not seen hitherto, and their teaching is of a kind that the world has not heard up to this time ... — Henryk Stanczyk

These pastoral-poet guys with their bleating goats and oaten pipes can stuff their phalaecean hendecasyllabics where the sun don't shine. — David Wishart

The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes. — Noah Webster

Even freed men will do what they must in Rome. — Katlyn Charlesworth

I'd say it was a pleasure rowing with you, only it wasn't. — Jennifer McKeithen

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium — Horace

the emperor had chewed off his balls and stuffed a one-way ticket to the Black Sea up his rectum [Marcus Corvinus explains what happened to Ovid] — David Wishart

A man who had the legions of the east marching at his back could be bred by a donkey on a mule and the senate would have no choice but to accept him. — M.C. Scott

there are men who are ancient and determined enemies of the Church of Rome who live in perpetual hope of its destruction — Glenn Cooper

The hermit, without access to the news of the day, owes it to himself to be up to date on the doings of ancient Rome. — Sylvain Tesson

Harder! Harder! Strike at it, for the gods' sake! It's a Parthian, not your grandmother! I swear if you don't put some effort into - What? — M.C. Scott

In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine. — Peggy Noonan

Ancient Rome was a violent place. — James Purefoy

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history. — James Joyce

OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph." — Ambrose Bierce

In the centre of our line, eighty paces to my left, I felt Cadus raise his hand; I did not need to look.
'Sound,' he said. That was all. — M.C. Scott

Nothing makes sense in Rome. — Katlyn Charlesworth

My tongue tasted like a gladiator's jockstrap [Marcus Corvinus after a night out] — David Wishart

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome. — Michael Mandelbaum

War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people. — Arthur Helps

I at least know what I am and do not try to hide it from the rest of the world. Do you know what you are? Because you can only be one thing at a time. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? — Will Rogers