da Tacito
Origine: Traduzione di C. Marocchi Santandrea, Paideia, Brescia, 1967, vol. I. Citato in Gian Biagio Conte, Emilio Pianezzola, Storia e testi della letteratura latina 2: la tarda repubblica e l'età di Augusto, Le Monnier, Firenze, p. 811, ISBN 88-00-42019-2.
Ronald Syme Frasi e Citazioni
Ronald Syme: Frasi in inglese
“Security and aggression are terms of partisan interpretation.”
Origine: The Roman Revolution (1939), Ch. 7.
The Roman Revolution ([1939] 2002), ch. 11.
Contesto: The political cant of a country is naturally and always most strongly in evidence on the side of the vested interests. In times of peace and prosperity it commands a wide measure of acquiescence, even of belief. Revolution rends the veil.
“Without a party a statesman is nothing. He sometimes forgets that awkward fact.”
Origine: The Roman Revolution (1939), Ch. 4.
“The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the Commonwealth.”
Origine: The Roman Revolution (1939), Ch. 9.
Introduction: Augustus and History
The Roman Revolution (1939)