Quote by Lucy Riall Download Open image ““the Roman satirical daily, Il Don Pirlone (‘Mr Dickhead’,”” — Lucy Riall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Oh, can these men love, my Clodius? Scarcely even with the senses. How rarely a Roman has a heart! He is but the mechanism… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power. -Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento — Virgil Copy Share
A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name." "I think that's Pliny the younger, the famous Roman writer," Amy supplied. She bent down to read the English portion of the tablet. "Right. In A.D. 79, Pliny chronicled the destruction of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount… — Gordon Korman Copy Share
“Even more interesting perhaps is the gallery of Roman ladies, whose portraits are limned with so fine and discriminating a touch. Juvenal again is responsible for much misconception as to the part the women of Rome played in Roman society. The appalling Sixth Satire, in which he unhesitatingly declares that most women — if not all — are bad, and… — Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus Pliny the Younger Copy Share
“One hundred copies? Of these poems you do not even like?” asked the Roman. “They’re nasty bits about famous people; everyone will want them.” — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
“I would rather see Rome ruled by a man who once had to ask his accountant tricky questions before his steward could pay the butcher’s bill than by some mad limb like Nero, who was brought up believing himself the son and the grandson of gods, and who thought wearing the purple gave him free rein to indulge his personal… — Lindsey Davis Copy Share
“... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The Roman co-founder named Romulus Had hair that was pretty ridiculous: With head lice it teemed; This was not esteemed -- His friends called… — David Fogg Copy Share Image
“So, Maximus the Fellatio Trainer — how does your prick feel about scratchy barbarian beards?” Lucius Petronius” — JP Kenwood Copy Share Image
“Anyone who speaks Latin (gets egged by the populace for being a nerd) must have wondered from the start if Panem was a reference… — Leah Wilson Copy Share Image
“(About Cesare Borgia) What cruelties were not the result of his? Who could count all his crimes? Such was the man that Machiavel prefers… — Frederick the Great Copy Share Image
“The ‘explosion of journalism’ in Europe brought about by the end of censorship in many states in 1847–8 was a clear symptom of political… — Lucy Riall Copy Share Image
