For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.