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Greece. The Romans invented no art forms, constructed no original system of philosophy, and made no scientific discoveries. They made good roads, systematic...

paving their roads, constructing aqueducts, and sewers, to convey the sewage of the city into the Tiber. In fact, they have paved the roads, cut through...

more; Si fueris alibi, vivito sicut ibi. If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. St. Ambrose to...

Found in Europe, they possibly first sprang up when the Romans built their system of Roman roads two millennia ago. Some inns in Europe are several centuries...

yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see...

(1873). Good roads, good schools and good churches are a sure sign of the best citizenship produced by a free republic. How about our roads? Author unknown;...

lasted from AD 43 to AD 410. But the Roman came with a heavy hand, And bridged and roaded and ruled the land, And the Roman left and the Danes blew in— And...

burial practices in the Roman world away from cremation to inhumation. Outside the city walls of Rome, adjacent to major roads, catacombs were dug into...

will quite probably have made a wealthy marriage and been converted to Roman Catholicism; or, still more typically, a prim little man with a white-collar...

just joking, but... whatever Definitely not that funny. Ride or die All Roads Lead To This Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner...

Narrator: This is the Appian Way, the most famous road that leads to Rome, as all roads lead to Rome. On this road march her conquering legions. Imperial Rome...

groaning together and being in pain together until now. Paul of Tarsus, Romans 8:18-22, NWT On seeing his shadow fall on such ancient rocks, he had to...

pleasure. The landscape is very beautiful, and entirely unspoiled. The roads are either Roman and straight, or romantic and devious and narrow. There is little...

the Roman imperialist aggressors, excluding those concerned with drainage, medicine, roads, housing, education, viniculture and any other Romans contributing...

born Gaius Octavius, was the adopted son of Julius Caesar and the first Roman Emperor. He also became a pontiff and later Pontifex Maximus. Si sine uxore...

Book II, line 159. Given to hospitality. Romans, XII. 13. Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town? Rabindranath Tagore, Gardener...

was a Roman poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that became the Roman Empire's...

Sextus Propertius (50 BC – 16 BC) was a Roman elegiac poet in Maecenas' circle. Neque assueto mutet amore torum. Never change when love has found its...

merged into Rome. (Discuss) Ancient Rome is an ancient city, capital of Roman civilization (753 B.C.E. — C.E. 476). To anyone who asks me what ancient...

Lu Xun (25 September, 1881 – 19 October, 1936) , formerly romanized Lu Hsün, was the pen name of Zhou Shuren, a leading figure of modern Chinese literature...