Every step Quote by Douglas Jackson

“Destiny had decreed that the Gauls were still to feel the true meaning of Roman valor, for when the raiders started on their mission…

— Livy

“You fought well on Mona, my Mules, but I have brought you here for a little more javelin practice.’ The words carried along the…

— Douglas Jackson

“But she did not say it. It would hurt him, and if there was anything she knew to be true, it was that a…

— Cassandra Clare

“Such was the cost of dealing with the Romans: even when one fought against them, the stain of their violence licked and crackled at…

— Ruth Downie

“I am a Roman,' he said to the king; 'my name is Gaius Mucius. I came here to kill you - my enemy. I…

— Livy

“Something snapped in my mind. The noise all around me receded in a wave until all I heard was a distant, throbbing pulse like…

— Lesley Livingston

“Germanicus was also confident of the morale of his legionaries. In the days leading up to the battle, a German had ridden to the…

— Stephen Dando-Collins

“The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics, according to Rahel, was the amount of trouble they took over their armour and their…

— Arundhati Roy

“He stopped at the gate on his way back to the temple, where Gracilis, the Twentieth’s hard-case wolf hunter from the Campanian mountains, was…

— Douglas Jackson

“The Roman envoys replied that they would go where their own generals led them, not where bidden by their enemies.”

— Livy

“However, here’s a crucial point to remember about the Roman soldier’s protective shield: It was made of leather, so it would have become hard,…

— Rick Renner

“He [Lucius Papirius Cursor] then gave the order to advance the standards and led out his troops, expostulating on the folly of a people…

— Livy