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Bowersock said there was no such thing as a middle class Roman. Wealthy upper class Romans managed to survive Rome's traumas by passing into the Church, according to Bowersock.
When the Greek general Pyrrhus knocked the Romans around way back when, he soon became a discouraged man, despite his victories.
Spark hints at dark spiritual convulsions, a "new world which was arising out of the ashes of the old, avid for immaterialism." Toward the end of the book, the fraudulent Hubert is lionized by a crowd of jaded Romans as a spokes man for the vengeful goddess Diana.
Dies Atra. The ancient Romans had a name for days when the world seemed to turn itself upside down. And that's a fairly accurate description of what happened to the conventional wisdom last Saturday, when the Ivy scoreboard overturned the predictions of the Ivy soothsayers in an almost unbelievable...
Toga Switch. Meanwhile the British, who begin wilting at around 75°, were hard pressed to keep their dignity starched. Businessmen were actually sighted coatless on London streets as temperatures stubbornly hovered near 90° each day, and a beat-the-heat letter to the London Times suggested that since...