The Renaissance of Latin

As Tacitus remarks of the Britons, “They even adopted our fashion of dress, and started wearing the toga; little by little they were drawn to touches of vice, such as colonnades, baths, and fancy conversations. Because they didn’t know better, they called it ‘civilization,’ when it was part of their slavery” (idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset).

Posted on timeDecember 26th, 2007 by userSimon Greenhill



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