Rome is a mother. Rome is a whore. Rome can be domineering, imperious, corrupt, vicious. But rome can never be ungenerous. Rome gives all of her sensual pleasures, without stint.
Poop is funny --- There was a Roman Emperor named Pupienus Maximus, pronounced 'poopy-anus'.
How was Rome split in two?With a pair of Caesars
In Ancient Rome, the most popular pets were Ferrets (for rodents), dogs (for security), and monkeys (for entertainment).
Rome 1s 2ecline was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Instead of inquiring why the roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprized that it had subsisted so long.
Rome is a city greater than any upon earth, whose amplitude no eye can measure, whose beauty no imagination can picture.
Rome is a city frozen in time, a city that has not seen a modern building in more than half a century.
The Roman Empire had a ship-mounted flamethrowers, uniquely effective due to the fact that throwing water onto it would only feed the fire.
Ancient Roman surgeons were trained to block out the screams of human pain.
Rome is the place that Caesar Augustus found a city built of brick, and left built of marble.