The History of Rome, Books 6-10 Quotes

“The Roman envoys replied that they would go where their own generals led them, not where bidden by their enemies.”
― Livy, The History of Rome, Books 6-10: Rome and Italy

“Rome would never have need of a dictator if she had such men in office, men so united in heart, as ready to obey as to command, and contributing glory to the common stock rather than drawing from it in their personal interests.”
― Livy, The History of Rome, Books 6-10: Rome and Italy

“The law proposed by Valerius forbade that anyone who had appealed should be scourged with rods or beheaded, but if the law was disregarded on either point it did no more than term it 'a wicked deed'. Such was the sense of shame amongst men at that time that this, I suppose, was thought to impose a legal sanction which would be sufficiently binding. Today hardly anyone would seriously utter such a threat.”
― Livy, The History of Rome, Books 6-10: Rome and Italy

“He [Lucius Papirius Cursor] then gave the order to advance the standards and led out his troops, expostulating on the folly of a people [Tarentum] which was incompetent to manage its own affairs because of internal strife and discord, but yet thought fit to prescribe limits to peace and war for others.”
― Livy, The History of Rome, Books 6-10: Rome and Italy