Romans

In 2017, soon after attending a Drollinger study on the book of Romans, Jeff Sessions, then the attorney general, cited Romans to justify the policy of separating children from their parents at the Southern border.

As a result, "New Romans" and, under their influence, "old Romans" too, either dropped the nomen from their name or, in some cases, treated the nomen as a praenomen.

Beginning around 300 BC, the pastry cook became an occupation for Romans (known as the pastillarium) and became a respected profession because pastries were considered decadent, and Romans loved festivity and celebration.

First contact with the Romans seeAlso «Die Helvetier zwingen die Römer unter dem Joch hindurch» ("The Helvetians force the Romans to pass under the yoke").

His desire for her and hatred for the Romans lead him to join the "People's Front of Judea", one of many fractious and bickering independence movements, who spend more time fighting each other than the Romans.

His sudden appearance among the Gauls of the Po Valley, moreover, enabled him to detach those tribes from their new allegiance to the Romans before the Romans could take steps to check the rebellion.

Plutarch writes that many Romans found the triumph held following Caesar's victory to be in poor taste, as those defeated in the civil war had not been foreigners, but instead fellow Romans.

Potter, "Entertainers in the Roman Empire," p. 303. The Romans thought gladiator contests had originated with funeral games and sacrifices in which select captive warriors were forced to fight to expiate the deaths of noble Romans.

The city was not punished by the Romans for its long alliance with Carthage, but owing to the mythical common origin of the Romans and the Elymians (both descendants of refugees from Troy ) it was granted the state of a "free and immune" city.

They retained the honour of the ancient association with the Romans, not required to pay tribute or taxes and used by the Romans only for war: "They furnished to the Empire nothing but men and arms", Tacitus remarked.

About 40 or so students tried delicacies enjoyed by the Greeks and Romans.

Also, Queerty, people from Spain are “Latin” (their language and culture derives from the Romans and the Latin language), as are people from France, Italy, Portugal, Romania, etc.

A pair of indomitable Gauls battle Romans in this animated series based on the much-loved comics.

A prolific and eminently readable scholar, he was most familiar for his books “Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error” and “Carnival in Romans,” which became instant classics on both sides of the Atlantic.

A robust, green clad, Boudicca charging in her chariot to rout the Romans.

As part of Birdland’s ‘Shriek Week’ celebrations, visitors can discover why owls are considered to be so wise, where the legend of the phoenix came from and which bird call the Romans believed to mean imminent death.

Board Chair Peter Romans was unanimously reelected to a two-year seat, also uncontested.

Both the Greeks and Romans offered an animal sacrifice to their gods, Ares and Mars being no exceptions.

Early Christians considered rose to be symbolic of paganism and their oppressors, the Romans, and were warned by church leaders not to plant it.

For Jews, Temple Mount is the holiest place, where the biblical King Solomon built the first Temple 3,000 years ago and where a second Temple was razed by the Romans.