Bland Quote by Matthew Arnold

“The debauched reign of Tiberius now looks almost irreproachable, the riotous city of ancient Babylon seemingly incorruptible, and the old harems of the Sublime…

— A. H. Septimius

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the…

— Jonathan Franzen

“Caligula was a pervert and a tyrant. If the Roman emperor had any redeeming qualities, they weren’t immediately obvious. Unencumbered by things like morality…

— Natalie Kyriacou

“Thomas looked like he was about to talk some smack at the malk, but only for a second. Then he frowned and said, "It's…

— Jim Butcher

“Letter from Philippus of Athens to Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Yet the Empire of Rome that [Octavius] created has endured the harshness of a Tiberius,…

— John Williams

“It seemed to be a matter of general agreement that Hardy Cates was born for trouble, and sooner or later he would find it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

“Suetonius, the gossip columnist of ancient Rome, says that Caesar wrote to Cicero and other friends in a cipher in which the plaintext letters…

— David Kahn

Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not…

— Edward Young

“I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so…

— Robert Graves

“Cats never listen. They’re dependable that way; when Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time.”

— Seanan McGuire

Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A life of…

— Edward Gibbon

The triumph of the Romans was indeed sullied by their treatment of the captive king, whom they hung on a gibbet without the knowledge…

— Edward Gibbon