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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

— Lactantius

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

— Goldwin Smith

The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.

— Amy Chua

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

— Voltaire

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

— James Purefoy

The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.

— John Lothrop Motley

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

— Anatole Broyard

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

— Brian Clough

Archaeologists have been digging up thousands of graves of people called Scythians by the Greeks. They turn out to be people whose women fought, hunted, rode horses, used bows and arrows, just like the men.

— Adrienne Mayor

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

— Livy

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

— Garrison Keillor

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