“It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors. We are not.”
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
“Cicero once said of Cato, ‘he talks as if he were in the Republic of Plato, when in fact he is in the crap of Romulus’.”
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
“Cato was the most vociferous enemy of Carthage, notoriously, tediously but ultimately persuasively ending every speech he made with the words ‘Carthage must be destroyed’ (‘Carthago delenda est’, in the still familiar Latin phrase).”
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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