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ancient romans

n. (plural of Ancient Roman English)

Usage examples of "ancient romans".

He deliberately conducted his life along the lines of the stories that were told of the ancient Romans.

For, as we read in their own authors, the ancient Romans paid greater honors to I know not what Summanus, to whom they attributed nocturnal thunderbolts, than to Jupiter, to whom diurnal thunderbolts were held to pertain.

During the same period, Italy revived and flourished under the government of a Gothic king, who might have deserved a statue among the best and bravest of the ancient Romans.

But when he was convinced that his cause was desperate, and his escape impracticable, the intrepid Barbarian imitated the example of the ancient Romans, and turned his sword against his own breast.

In the old legionary buildings of York Shef had been shown stairs and galleries that men swore dated from the time of the ancient Romans.

Aeneas follows her into a huge dark cave that the ancient Romans believed was the mouth of the underworld.

Recollect the ancient Romans of the Circus, and the sports where they killed three hundred lions and a hundred men.

She prefers the company of moldy books, especially books on ancient Romans.