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 More Quotes by Theodor Mommsen More Quotes From Theodor Mommsen Marcus Crassus cannot, any more than Pompeius, be reckoned among the unconditional adherents of the oligarchy. Theodor Mommsen than cannot any more Sertorius was far from being strong enough to renew the gigantic enterprise of Hannibal. He was lost if he left Spain, where all his successes were bound up with the peculiarities of the country and the people; and even there, he was more and more compelled to renounce the offensive. Theodor Mommsen strong enough country people In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained. Theodor Mommsen far old possible monarchy To acquire possession of Latium was of the most decisive importance to Etruria, which was separated by the Latins alone from the Volscian towns that were dependent on it and from its possessions in Campania. Theodor Mommsen possessions which alone importance The Celtic, Galatian, or Gallic nation received from the common mother endowments different from those of its Italian, Germanic, and Hellenic sisters. Theodor Mommsen those nation different mother 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 nothing plastic architecture art The power which the Hellenes and even the Italians possessed, of civilizing and assimilating to themselves the nations susceptible of culture with whom they came into contact, was wholly wanting in the Phoenicians. Theodor Mommsen which contact power culture During the most flourishing times of Sidon and Tyre, the land of the Phoenicians was a perpetual apple of contention between the powers that ruled on the Euphrates and on the Nile, and was subject sometimes to the Assyrians, sometimes to the Egyptians. Theodor Mommsen apple nile land sometimes An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours. Theodor Mommsen independence lost war peace 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 city things balance power
