Ancient Rome: An Introductory History by Paul A. Zoch

Author:Paul A. Zoch [Zoch, Paul A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Ancient, Rome, test
ISBN: 9780806132877
Google: 95bu0O3LLlsC
Amazon: B00AHYAVOY
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2000-06-29T08:00:00+00:00

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hero and made him consul. In one of his speeches, Marius told the common people:

"Those men, they're so arrogant, they have it all wrong [in thinking that their noble birth alone warrants special respect]. Their ancestors left them all the things they could leave them, such as wealth, wax masks, the memory of their brilliant deeds. They didn't leave them manliness, though, and they couldn't. That's the only thing that isn't given and received like a gift. They think I'm uncouth and trashy because I don't give an elegant enough dinner, or I don't have some actor or a cook who's worth more than a slave who manages a farm. My fellow Romans, I'm happy to admit it, because I got it from my father and other upstanding men that pretty things are right for women, but work is a man's job, and that having a good reputation is worth more than money, and that one gets glory not with household objects, but with weapons." (Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum LXXXV. 38-40)

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