There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans…

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

— Tertullian

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

— Ray Davies

The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.'

— Robert Crandall

“Back then his usual outfit was too-tight jeans, T-shirts with slogans intended to cause offence like ‘So many Christians, so few lions’, and cowboy…

— Paul Thomas

“Historian John Keay put it best: ‘The conduct of states, as of individuals, can only be assessed by the standards of their age, not…

— Shashi Tharoor

If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw…

— Tertullian

Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up…

— Michael Korda

“Even Tacitus admitted that “whatever their origin, [the Jews’] observances are sanctioned by their antiquity,”64 and the Romans respected tradition. Christians, however, had no…

— Elaine Pagels

“Jesus was, if anything, far more useful than dangerous to the Romans.”

— Kamal Salibi

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

— Camille Paglia

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

“The Romans, Jones pointed out, called a man in love salax, in a salted state, which is the origin of the word salacious.”

— Mark Kurlansky

The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me.

— John Green

“The central government was a despotism tempered by military rebellion and assassination and replacement of one scurvy lot of ruling dynasts by another. But…

— Norman F. Cantor

“When the ancient Romans would conquer a new place or a new people, they would leave the language and the customs in tact –…

— Amy Harmon