Author: Theodor Mommsen

Quotes

The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage.

The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage.

- Theodor Mommsen

About the time of the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome, the Etruscan power had reached its height.

About the time of the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome, the Etruscan power had reached its height.

- Theodor Mommsen

Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.

Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.

- Theodor Mommsen

Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.

Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.

- Theodor Mommsen

The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.

The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.

- Theodor Mommsen

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