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Word: lucullus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wailed one of his French critics: "He compared the shepherds of primitive Latium to the shepherds of Texas; the ancient Romans to the Boers; the Roman electoral body to the cosmopolitan demagogy of the United States; Rome itself to London, Paris, New York, Berlin, Milan; and Lucullus to Napoleon. He talks about capitalism, parliamentarism, imperialism, feminism . . . clubs, meetings, high life. . . . Cato is a landlord; M. Aemilius Scaurus a self-made man; Caesar a socialist leader, a Tammany boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: L'Annado de la Paou | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

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