'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul; I think the Romans call it stoicism.

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act1, sc.4, l.82^3.

Here, in the west of Ireland, the Romans had never marched, tramp, tramp, tramp: had never fortified a camp: had never built a well-ordered, sensible, useful road. It was a land where common sense and an orderly way of life were unknown. Hercule Poirot looked down at the tips of his patent- leather shoes and sighed. He felt forlorn and very much alone. The standards by which he lived were here not appreciated.

-Christie, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa ne¤  e Miller
  The Labours of Hercules.

The Romans conquered the world not because they held committees but becausethey killed the opposition. That's where I'm coming from.

-Sweetenham, Bill
  In The Independent, 29 Dec.

I am very glad that I see Rome while it yet exists; before a great number of years are elapsed, I question whether it will be worth seeing. Between the ignorance and poverty of the present Romans, every thing is neglected and falling to decay.

-Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford
  Letter. Collected in P Cunningham (ed) The Letters of HoraceWalpole, Fourth Earl of Orford (1857^9).