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> [“...it is plain that the proportion of celibates was high in the Roman empire and that the fall in the fertility of marriages was going on. It is the childless marriage, the small family system that contemporary writers deplore…'The human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-power/it-is-plain-that-the-proportion-of-celibates-was-high-in-the-roman/)

[Eileen Power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-power/)

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## More by Eileen Power

> [“There is the familiar figure of Orosius, defending the barbarians with the argument that when the Roman empire was founded it was founded in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-power/there-is-the-familiar-figure-of-orosius-defending-the-barbarians-with/)

[Eileen Power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-power/)

> [“Sidonius lives in a world already half barbarian, yet in the year before the Western Empire falls he is still dreaming of the consulship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-power/sidonius-lives-in-a-world-already-half-barbarian-yet-in-the-year/)

[Eileen Power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-power/)

> [“...it is plain that the proportion of celibates was high in the Roman empire and that the fall in the fertility of marriages was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-power/it-is-plain-that-the-proportion-of-celibates-was-high-in-the-roman/)

[Eileen Power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-power/)

> [“In the first place the process of disintegration was a slow one, for the whole tempo of life was slow and what might take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-power/in-the-first-place-the-process-of-disintegration-was-a-slow-one-for/)

[Eileen Power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-power/)

> [“This peaceful infiltration of barbarians which altered the whole character of the society which it invaded would have been impossible, of course, if that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-power/this-peaceful-infiltration-of-barbarians-which-altered-the-whole/)

[Eileen Power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-power/)

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