Authorship Quote by Edmund Burke

“You go on, I presume, with your latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust who is one of the…

— John Adams

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

— Joseph Addison

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

— G. M. Trevelyan

“The Roman greatness is a proof of the excellence of their legions,”

— Flavius Vegetius Renatus

“And this puts me in mind of that rich gentleman of Rome, who had been solicitous, with great expense, to procure men that were…

— Michel de Montaigne

“The Romans were distinguished for their genius for law-giving and government, the Greeks for philosophy, art, and mental culture generally.”

— James Elliott

The best stuff that Cicero wrote, in the first century in Rome, were the Philippics, a series of speeches that he delivered against Marc…

— John D'Agata

“To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they…

— Charles Dickens

“The uncommon abilities and fortune of Severus have induced an elegant historian to compare him with the first and greatest of the Cæsars. The…

— Edward Gibbon

“But such accounts as we have from the Romans were written in periods of panic, and the Roman could lie about his enemies with…

— H.G. Wells

“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

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

— Goldwin Smith