When Sulla died in the year 676, the oligarchy which he had restored ruled with absolute sway over the Roman state; but, as it had been established by force, it still needed force to maintain its ground against its numerous secret and open foes. Theodor Mommsen More Quotes by Theodor Mommsen More Quotes From Theodor Mommsen History is neither written nor made without love or hate. Theodor Mommsen cynical hate history The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd. Theodor Mommsen simplicity evil mean Without passion, there is no genius. Theodor Mommsen passion genius History has a Nemesis for every sin. Theodor Mommsen nemesis sin historical The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar. Theodor Mommsen scholar artist The Phoenicians are entitled to be commemorated in history by the side of the Hellenic and Latin nations; but their case affords a fresh proof, and perhaps the strongest proof of all, that the development of national energies in antiquity was of a one-sided character. Theodor Mommsen fresh development character history 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 disaster defeat victory peace About the time of the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome, the Etruscan power had reached its height. Theodor Mommsen height rome power time For a whole generation after the battle of Pydna, the Roman state enjoyed a profound calm, scarcely varied by a ripple here and there on the surface. Theodor Mommsen generation calm ripple battle The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World. Theodor Mommsen great ocean sea world The ancient boundary of Italy on the north was not the Alps but the Apennines. Theodor Mommsen boundary italy north ancient We have no information, not even a tradition, concerning the first migration of the human race into Italy. It was the universal belief of antiquity that in Italy, as well as elsewhere, the first population had sprung from the soil. Theodor Mommsen migration tradition information race Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history. Theodor Mommsen other words individual history When the Romans in the last age of the republic came into immediate contact with Iran as a consequence of the occupation of Syria, they found in existence the Persian empire regenerated by the Parthians. Theodor Mommsen last contact existence age The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids. Theodor Mommsen empire been language land Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus. Theodor Mommsen seem mouth been power If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716. Theodor Mommsen doing never great circumstances The Dalmatian tribes and the Pannonians, at least of the region of the Save, for a short time obeyed the Roman governors; but they bore the new rule with an ever increasing grudge, above all on account of the taxes, to which they were unaccustomed, and which were relentlessly exacted. Theodor Mommsen save short new time The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences. Theodor Mommsen consequences view political battle If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted. Theodor Mommsen mouth obedience ocean time
