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Rome beautified herself with her plunder—with colonnades such as the ageing Augustus loved to sit under on the Palatine, and libraries 'among cold baths and hot baths,' and the first theatre built by Pompey in stone, where early in the first century cushions came into use under Caligula and senators took to wearing Thessalian hats against the sun.
— Nov 08, 2022 09:52PM
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The permanence of this stream [trade along the Silk Road] ... is one among the triumphs of the human reason over chaos, though its virtual obstruction at the Roman end through eight centuries of unnecessary war is the melancholy subject of this book.
— Nov 09, 2022 08:52PM
Jim
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Even Cicero, writing about the invasion of Britain, remarks that 'there is not a scrap of silver in the island, nor any hope of booty except from slaves.' However moderate the Republic's colonial theory in Rome, the policy of the army in the field may be summed up by Lord Kitchener's unhappy phrase, to 'loot like blazes.'
— Nov 07, 2022 09:44PM
