Ronald Syme Quotes

• Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.

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  Blood, Born, Monarchy

  Ronald Syme (2002). “The Roman Revolution”, p.201, OUP Oxford

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• The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

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  Vitality, Aristocracy, Empires

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• Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

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  Army, History, Income

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• Women have their uses for historians.

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  Use, Historian

  Ronald Syme (1989). “The Augustan Aristocracy”, p.168, Oxford University Press

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