Author: Theodor Mommsen

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Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.

Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.

- 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

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

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

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