vita vigilia est
Preferment and superior social position were appanages of classical culture
Der Jurist ging nach Italien – der Historiker kam zurück
[CIL ist] zum guten Teil mechanische Arbeit
He applied to Rome a Greek constitutional scheme … which can do no justice to the novelty of the Italian confederation
Romans, like others, might sneer even while they copied
Black-letter literacy … was a more basic skill than roman-type literacy
A Commentary on Cicero, De officiis
after Actium Augustus controlled all the legions: compared with that, tribunician power and imperium maius mattered little
velim videas primum conductores qui sint et quanti, deinde ut sint qui ad diem solvant