Quote by Lesley Livingston

“Romans! They think women and children are fit sacrifices in war and anything less than crucifixion smacks of leniency. And they call us barbarians.…

— Manda Scott

“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

“Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Come one, come all! Welcome to the world's greatest entertainment since the fall of Rome. Life, death, victims, voyeurs. The best of society, the…

— Tso

“The Romans were not wiped out by the invasions of the barbarians, nor by the Christian virus, but by a more subtle evil, boredom.”

— Emil Cioran

“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

“Major imperial shows could deploy thousands of pairs of combatants, not to mention all manner of animals and wild beasts-hounds, lions, bears, bulls-battling one…

— Vincent Carroll

“There is the familiar figure of Orosius, defending the barbarians with the argument that when the Roman empire was founded it was founded in…

— Eileen Power

War,--the trade of barbarians!

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and adorned with…

— Victor Hugo

“Elka nodded. “Right after he said we’d been sold to a murdering tyrant. Yes.” Julius Caesar. The tyrant. I could barely believe I’d been…

— Lesley Livingston

“The explosion of grotesque immorality we associate with imperial Rome—open prostitution and perversion, the bloody gladiatorial combats, and so forth—is best understood as a…

— Rod Bennett