Quotes about Roman

the same disposition that impelled the Greeks and Romans to embellish their precious sarcophagi precisely as we still see them, with festivals, dancing, weddings,4 hunts, animal combat, bacchanals, thus with depictions of the most powerful press of life,i which they bring before us not only in such entertainments, but in group debauchery extending even to the point of copulation between satyrs and goats.

Nietzsche could have arisen only from the soil of the German Reformation. Here, the contradiction between the natural and grace is starkly opposed to the reconciliation of nature with grace in the Roman heritage.

The most general formulation of rights given with the natural is, in the words of Roman law, suum cuique, to each his own.

When Christians faced oppression at the hands of Roman imperialists, they did what Jews had done when they faced oppression at the hands of Babylonian imperialists: dreamed of vengeance and enshrined the dream in theology.

For as he told the story of a simple Judean slave girl. Marcus Lucianus Valerian, a Roman who didn't believe in anything, proclaimed the gospel of Jesus Christ.

To ACCUMB  (ACCU'MB)   v.a.[accumbo, Lat.] To lie at the table, according to the ancient manner.Dict.   ACCUMBENT  (ACCU'MBENT)   adj.[accumbens, Lat.]Leaning. The Roman recumbent, or, more properly, accumbent posture in eating, was introduced after the first Punic war.Arbuthnoton Coins.   

Blessed also be Christ, the chief Roman pontiff, who has given grace to his faithful ones that, when there is no Roman pontiff for a given time, they may, under Christ as thenleader, arrive in the heavenly country!

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

The general claim of the oracle is that a new regime of peace and well-being will displace the older (Roman) order of violence and extortion.

Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.