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Theodor Mommsen
1817 – 1903 • German • Historian
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Showing 27 quotesMarcus Crassus cannot, any more than Pompeius, be reckoned among the unconditional adherents of the oligarchy.— Theodor Mommsen
When Sulla died in the year 676, the oligarchy which he had restored ruled with absolute sway over the Roman state; but, as it had been established by force, it still needed force to maintain its ground against its numerous secret and open foes.— Theodor Mommsen
If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted.— Theodor Mommsen
The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.— Theodor Mommsen