He prohibited foreigners from adopting Roman names, especially those which belonged to families 526 .
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

For at Rome now even the so-called Fathers took no part in public affairs, but had merely their name and dignity, and were called into the Senate House more for form's sake than to express their opinions.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

On that occasion I had stopped some days with a Colonel Tumlin, to see some remarkable Indian mounds on the Etowah River, usually called the "Hightower:" I therefore knew that the Allatoona Pass was very strong, would be hard to force, and resolved not even to attempt it, but to turn the position, by moving from Kingston to Marietta via.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

For years the Mediterranean Sea had been infested by daring pirates, who at last made it unsafe for a Roman noble even to drive to his sea- side villa, or a merchant to venture abroad for purposes of trade.
— from The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman

Entertainments of every kind followed each other in close succession, and the French and Russian, nay, even the Prussian officers, seemed so delighted with each other's society, that it was difficult to conceive that men, so courteous and amiable, had been for so many months drenching trampled snows and muddy wastes with each other's blood.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume III. by Walter Scott

He had so drifted from a remote New England town, and his speculative successes had been phenomenal.
— from An Ambitious Woman: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

This practice being considered an abuse, the Emperor Claudius (A. D. 40-54), prohibited foreigners from assuming Roman names, especially those of the ancient gentes.
— from Ancient Society Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization by Lewis Henry Morgan

London has learned in the years of this war that "haste makes waste" and that "direct hits" from airplanes respect not even the stoutest buildings anyhow.
— from Huts in Hell by Daniel A. (Daniel Alfred) Poling

It is not probable that from any records now existing the most patient accountant could elicit any statement, even approximating to accuracy, of the sums which Franklin received and paid out.
— from Benjamin Franklin by John Torrey Morse