Being then greeted by universal acclamation with the title of Emperor, and sending his laurel crown to the Capitol, Nero shut the temple of the two-faced Janus, as though there now existed no war throughout the Roman empire. XIV.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

"I am then ready," exclaimed Xenophon, "to march with the rear-guard, as soon as we have supped, to take possession of the hills.
— from The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis by Xenophon

THE CIVILIZATION OF THE ROMAN WORLD IX. CHRISTIANITY AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE X. EMIGRANTS A THOUSAND YEARS AGO XI.
— from Introductory American History by Henry Eldridge Bourne

His tremendous name was employed by the Syrian mothers to silence their infants; and if a horse suddenly started from the way, his rider was wont to exclaim, “Dost thou think King Richard is in the bush?”—Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , xi.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

"Judeos, impulsero Chresto assidue tumultuantes, Roma expulit." XXXIX.
— from Evidences of Christianity by William Paley

The Book of the Covenant, however, only adduces the one case of a man sold by the judicial authority for a theft which he was unable to restore (Exodus xxii.
— from The Relations between the Laws of Babylonia and the Laws of the Hebrew Peoples The Schweich Lectures by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns

THE RESCUE EXPEDITION XXXI.
— from The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Thus the Pythian prophetess replied to the Parians: and the Athenians, when Miltiades had returned back from Paros, began to talk of him, and among the rest especially Xanthippos the son of Ariphron, who brought Miltiades up before the people claiming the penalty of death and prosecuted him for his deception of the Athenians: and Miltiades did not himself make his own defence, although he was present, for he was unable to do so because his thigh was mortifying; but he lay in public view upon a bed, while his friends made a defence for him, making mention much both of the battle which had been fought at Marathon and of the conquest of Lemnos, namely how he had conquered Lemnos and taken vengeance on the Pelasgians, and had delivered it over to the Athenians: and the people came over to his part as regards the acquittal from the penalty of death, but they imposed a fine of fifty talents for the wrong committed: and after this Miltiades died, his thigh having gangrened and mortified, and the fifty talents were paid by his son Kimon. 137.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 by Herodotus

24 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , xxv.
— from The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Howard Williams

28 28 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , xxv.
— from The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Howard Williams