The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the…

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so…

— Henry James Sumner Maine

“I wrote code that merely did what it was supposed to do. Simon's solutions were rapid and weird—convoluted, sometimes in a pointless way, often…

— Austin Grossman

“The titles of his books are recorded as follows: The Twelve Caesars; Royal Biographies; Lives of Famous Whores; Roman Manners and Customs; The Roman…

— Suetonius

The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is…

— Ann Leckie

Would that the Roman people had but one neck!

— Caligula

Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.

— Mary Beard

Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did.…

— Tom Shales

Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!]

— Suetonius

Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My…

— Neil Marshall

Since by the ordination of God I both am called and am Emperor of the Romans, in nothing but name shall I appear to…

— Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

The Romans weren't trying to kill all the Jews, but they did destroy Jewish resistance to Roman rule. Jerusalem was turned into a Roman…

— Elaine Pagels

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

— Edward Gibbon

A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for…

— Harris L Coulter

“Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon. "Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice…

— Judith Merkle Riley

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were.…

— Benjamin Carson