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...Excerpt: In those lusty ages when the Kaisers lifted high the golden goblet of Aachen, and drank, elbow upward, the green-eyed wine of old romance, there lived, a bow-shot from the bones of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and the Three Holy Kings, a prosperous Rhinelander, by name Gottlieb Groschen, or, as it was sometimes ennobled, Gottlieb von Groschen; than whom ...

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...lden goblet of Aachen, and drank, elbow upward, the green-eyed wine of old romance, there lived, a bow-shot from the bones of the Eleven Thousand Virg... ...ne; basalt-quarries about Linz; mineral-springs in Nassau, a legacy of the Romans to the genius and enterprise of the first of German traders. He coul... ...ng of the danger. This old house saw Charles the Great embracing the chief magistrate of his liege city yonder. Some swear he slept in it. He did not ...

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...e out of the ship’ s crew whom I took up at sea. It is true this man was a Roman, and perhaps it may give offence to some hereafter if I leave anythin... ... sir, the essence of the sacrament of matrimony” (so he called it, being a Roman) “consists not only in the mutual consent of the parties to take one ... ...he answered, with abundance of candour, thus: “Sir, I am a Catholic of the Roman Church, and a priest of the order of St. Benedict, and I embrace all ... ...iest of the order of St. Benedict, and I embrace all the principles of the Roman faith; but yet, if you will believe me, and that I do not speak in co... ...to direct. In the meantime, surely you will allow it consists with me as a Roman to dis- tinguish far between a Protestant and a pagan; between one th... ...out pilferers, of which there were not a few in that country: however, the magistrates allowed us a little guard, and we had a soldier with a kind of ... ...in the retinue of one of their mandarins, a kind of vice- roy or principal magistrate in the province where they reside, and who take great state upon...

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...an interruption to the higher aims of life and destruction to family joys. Romance in her eyes was the exaltation of woman out of reach, and Maura’s c... ...us nature, whose youthful mistakes had been the outcome of high spirit and romance, and who, under discipline, danger, suffering, and responsibility, ... ... I always thought of him as a great, stout, monied man, quite incapable of romance and sensitiveness.’ ‘If so, don’t you think he would have let that ... ...k us back- ward in kindness to friends about whom she plainly has a little romance.’ She refrained from uttering a suspicion inspired by her visit tha... ...kstone she fully reciprocated the sentiment that it was no wonder that the Romans conquered the world, since they knew the Latin grammar by nature. No... ...l the accusation absurd; but it is only too pos- sible that the Avoncester magistrates may not see the evi- dence in the same light, as its weight dep... ...en consulted her whether to let all come out at the examination before the magistrates, or to induce the Stebbings to drop the prosecution. ‘It would ...

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...re Joseph Genestas was an unostentatious kind of Bayard. There was nothing romantic nor picturesque about him—he was too thoroughly commonplace. His w... ...rodi- giously neglected. He knew in a hazy kind of way that Cae- sar was a Roman Consul, or an Emperor, and that Alexander was either a Greek or a Mac... ...t to continue his education. So from this time forth he read new books and romances with avidity, in this way gaining a half- knowledge, of which he m... ...have done for our canton, every mayor ought, of course, to do for his; the magistrate should work for his town, the sub-prefect for his district, the ... ...of Sylla, and after the time of Julius Caesar, Tiberius raised it into the Roman Empire; the system was embodied in one man, and all authority was cen... ...s centered in him, a mea- sure which prolonged the magnificent sway of the Roman for several centuries. The Emperor had ceased to dwell in Rome when t...

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...pare with it in the capital of ideas. We feel ourselves on the quarter-deck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis-Philippe. Vestiges are before us of all those sovereignties, in monuments that recall...

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..., as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Mid... ...ity of life, he dreamed awake, he saw with his eyes the fantastic world of romances he had read in his idle hours. Any Parisian leaving, as he did, th... ...t the matter. “How old is she?” he began to ask himself; and a vision of a romance in the rue Chanoinesse came to him. “She certainly has an air of no... ...e low- est class; but the landlady was a very worthy woman, the widow of a magistrate who had died on the scaffold; she was utterly ruined by the Revo... ...that of the driver of the diligence, and that of the two refractories. The magistrates and the gendarmerie struck such sure blows that it was thought ... ...thing like the Fergus of Walter Scott, a French Jacobite. He developed the romance of an ardent young girl grossly deceived by an infamous husband (a ... ...f an ardent young girl grossly deceived by an infamous husband (a style of romance then much the fashion); loving the young and gallant leader of a re... ...chand. He put himself into secret com- munication with the prefect and the magistrates. What was the result? Never was any conspiracy, in which a grea... ...v- erything from me, but on the nineteenth I discovered that he had been a magistrate, a judge somewhere or other, I for- get where, and was writing a...

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...t from mouth and nose, have remained even till our own times to show how a Roman soldier did his duty. In like manner the last of the old Spanish infa... ...f those very native corps who were advancing to massacre him. This was the Roman sentry’s firmness, more voluntary and more glorious. Nor 10 A Book o... ...devotion of one man has been the saving of an army. Such, according to old Roman story, was the feat of Horatius Cocles. It was in the year B.C. 507, ... ...ver That rolls by the walls of Rome: ‘O Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman’s life, a Roman’s arms Take thou in charge this day.’... ...oved and honored by his fellow citizens, that in the time of a famine each Roman, to the number of 300,000, brought him a day’s food, lest he should s... ...’ army was reported to be coming thither. Camillus immediately offered the magistrates to undertake their defense; and getting to- gether all the men ... ...use, like most other cities, ought to have been governed by a coun- cil of magistrates; but Dionysius was an exceedingly able man, and made the city m... ...gods stood on the steps of the temples, and in marched the procession, the magistrates first in their robes of office, and then the trumpeters. Next c... ...is flock were in transports of despair, went forth only accompanied by one magistrate to meet the invader, and endeavor to turn his wrath side. The sa...

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...nted faire with memorable gestes, Of famous Wisards, and with picturals Of Magistrates, of courts, of tribunals, Of commen wealthes, of states, of pol... ...l Diademe, And goodly well long time it gouerned, Till the prowd Romanes him disquieted, And warlike Caesar, tempted with the name ... ...ayd; (O too high ditty for my simple rime.) Soone after this the Romanes him warrayd; For that their tribute he refusd to let be payd. ... ... Both in his armes, and crowne, and by that draught Did driue the Romanes to the weaker side, That they to peace agreed. So all was paci... ... was pacifide. Was neuer king more highly magnifide, Nor dred of Romanes, then was Aruirage, For which the Emperour to him allide ... ...rts diuide, And with her powre her owne selfe ouerthrew, Whilest Romanes dayly did the weake subdew: Which seeing stout Bunduca, vp aro...

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...others to undertake the like. Thus a swarm of foolish novels and monstrous romances will be produced, either to the great impoverishing of book selle... ...n such imitators as Rowe was of Shakespear, or as Horace hints some of the Romans were of Cato, by bare feet and sour faces. To invent good stories,... ...prehension of this contempt that hath made us so cautiously avoid the term romance, a name with which we might otherwise have been well enough content... ...s gener ally understood a creative faculty, which would indeed prove most romance writers to have the highest pretensions to it; whereas by invention... ...rived about this time. The serjeant pres ently enquired for the principal magistrate of the town, and was informed by my landlord, that he himself wa... ...being found upon the per son, were sufficient evidence of the fact. The magistrate, upon the encouragement of so learned a coadjutor, and upon the ... ... I will not determine; but such were the effects of her evidence, that the magistrate, throwing himself back in his chair, declared that the matter wa... ... say truth, I have often sus pected that those very enchanters with which romance ev erywhere abounds, were in reality no other than the hus bands ... ...ormal government and laws of their own, and all pay obedience to one great magistrate, whom they call their king. Greater plenty, likewise, was nowh...

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...forget my visit to Redclyffe four years ago. It was more like a scene in a romance than anything real—the fine old red sandstone house crumbling away ... ...ve, unless you mean to fight it out with his grandson, which would be more roman- tic and exciting.’ Philip was gone before he could finish. Mrs. Edmo... ...t,’ cried Laura; ‘he only looks on it as we have always done, as a sort of romantic appendage to Redclyffe. I should think better of a place for being... ...m, to beg for a sight of it; and Philip asked Charles what it was like. ‘A romantic incident,’ said Charles, ‘just fit for a novel. A Petrarch leaving... ...uy’s favour, besides the ancient name and long ancestry, which conferred a romantic inter- est, and caused even Philip to look up to him with a feudal... ...d he proceeded to reckon on Lord Thorndale’s interest, counting up all the magistrates he knew, and talking them over with Guy, who, however, did not ...

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...ow, sir, I could go—there, I don’t care where it is!—I could go before any magistrate livin’, and he’d make ye pay. It’s a charge, as custom is, and h... ...Well! I shouldn’t a’ thought a gentleman’ d make that his defence before a magistrate. But there, my man! if it makes ye happy, keep it. But you take ... ...cheese, and a chaste bed, seemingly utterly extinguished. I am cured of my romance. Of course, when I say bread and cheese, I speak figuratively. Food... ...ourt, that Evan would be confer- ring a benefit on all by carrying off the romantically-inclined but little presentable young lady. The diplomatist, w... ...ually divided between alarms of sisterly affection and a keen sense of the romance of the thing. Miss Carrington ordered the carriage to be driven rou... ...med. How very refreshing to think that there are nobles in your England as romantic, as courteous, as delicate as our own foreign ones! But his Grace ... ... smil- ing on everybody. I presume that the young Habral, son of the first magistrate of Lisbon, was also smiled on. Most in- nocently, I would swear!... ...d his quali- ties. He was as much a “no-nonsense” fellow, in his way, as a magistrate, or a minister.’ ‘Or a king, or a constable,’ Aunt Bel helped hi... ...he said: ‘Let me also belong to the very small party! You have been really romantic, and most generous and noble; only the shop smells! But, never min...

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...itution. The five first are Grecian, and the last in Washington is called— Romanesque. Had I been left to classify it by my own unaided lights, I shou... ...unless indeed they be needed to give to the whole struc- ture that name of Romanesque which it has assumed. The building is used for museums and lectu... ... cause there might money be made with the greatest ease. “Make money,” the Roman satirist said; “make it honestly if you can, but at any rate make mon... ...s of their coun- try-men, as was the case long since with reference to the Roman Catholic adherents of the Stuarts, and as has been the case since the... ...e people. They may use an elected president, a hereditary king, or a chief magistrate called by any other name. But the mag- istrate, whatever be his ... ...o us, as Cuba is and Mexico was to Spain, and as were the provinces of the Roman empire. Territories she has had, but by the peculiar beneficence of h... ...like universal suffrage. We do not like a periodi- cal change in the first magistrate; and we like quite as little a periodical permanence in the poli... ...iodical permanence in the political officers im- mediately under the chief magistrate; we are, in short, wedded to our own forms, and therefore oppose...

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... in interest to themselves. It appeared to them much better that the various magistrates of the State should be their tenants or delegates, revocable ... ... slaving the soul itself. Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection also against the tyranny... ... ish individuals, called the public. The most intoler ant of churches, the Roman Catholic Church, even at the canonization of a saint, admits, and l... ...sonable person can doubt that Christianity might have been extirpated in the Roman empire. It spread, and became pre dominant, because the persecutio... ...nded from an obscure sect of the despised He brews into the religion of the Roman empire. When their enemies said, “See how these Christians love one... ..., equally assumes a preexisting moral ity , namely , that of the Greeks and Romans; and his advice to Christians is in a great measure a system of ac... ...ation to the public ob tains in modern morality , is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of private li...

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...riage he means: English civil marriage, sacramental marriage, indissoluble Roman Catholic marriage, marriage of divorced persons, Scotch marriage, Iri... ... really in favor of maintaining marriage as it exists in England to-day. A Roman Catholic may obey his Church by assenting ver- bally to the doctrine ... ...ot be tolerated. As a matter of fact it is not tolerated fully even by the Roman Catholic Church; for Roman Catholic marriages can be dissolved, if no... ...ons of the dissolution be? SURVIVALS OF SEX SLAVERY If we adopt the common romantic assumption that the ob- ject of marriage is bliss, then the very s... ...egan with a fierce attack on marriage; and to this day the celibacy of the Roman Catholic priesthood is a stand- ing protest against its compatibility... ...oments can they ever be together. A man as intimate with his own wife as a magistrate is with his clerk, or a Prime Minister with the leader of the Op... ...never be put to a petitioner for divorce is “Why?” When a man appeals to a magistrate for protection from someone who threatens to kill him, on the si... ...o threatens to kill him, on the simple ground that he desires to live, the magistrate might quite reasonably ask him why he desires to live, and why t...

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...h, are rather legal than ethical. The police-court is their proper home. A magistrate cannot tell whether you love your neighbour as yourself, but he ... ...ue elixir for all vital spir- its, these are what they seek alike in their romantic enter- prises and their unromantic dissipations. When they are tak... ...ine precepts of unchanging justice and Scots law flow from his tongue. The magistrate listens in amazement, and fines him only a couple of guineas.’ S... ...nightmares– is often found astride of a somnolent sederunt. The Greeks and Romans, too, are reserved as sort of general- utility men, to do all the di... ...mself would defend the lines in which we are told how Laocoon ‘Revealed to Roman crowds, now Christian grown, 114 Robert Louis Stevenson That Pagan a... ...ity, she felt, excelled her dreams, and this cold night walk was the first romantic incident in her experience. It was the rule in these days to see g... ...e speaker of an unknown tongue, the hero (as she placed him) of an unknown romance, the dweller upon unknown memories. She recalled him sitting there ...

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...ining his wan but noble features, “why speak to thee in the accents of the Roman poet, which thou comprehendest not? Bright One, there be other things... ...sm: the above sentiment is expressed much more eloquently in the ingenious romance of Eugene Aram:—”The burning desires I have known—the resplendent v... ...mbassador’s lady, appeared in a suite of diamonds which outblazed even the Romanoff jewels, and Rafael Mendoza obtained the little caique. He never tr... ...er race; it was either a hymn by Rossini, a polacca by Braham, a delicious romance by Sloman, or a melody by Weber, that, thrilling on the strings of ... ...ntle, a green, and a beautiful; the home of arts and arms, of chivalry and romance, and (however sadly stained by the excesses of mod- ern times) ’twa... ....” And the gigantic Indian strode up, and stood undaunted before the first magistrate of the French nation: again the feeble monarch quailed before th... ...he garden. Franklin found him when his own interview with the French Chief Magistrate was over; being attracted to the spot where the Chief was, by th... ...nt character from Robin Hood the forester. There was no more conscientious magistrate in all the county than his lordship: he was never known to miss ... ... Bluenose as a Turkish princess. An alderman of Lon- don and his lady; two magistrates of the county, and the very pink of Croydon; several Polish nob...

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... black, glossy, long-tailed, barrel-bel- lied, thick-flanked, arch-necked, Roman-nosed Flanders horses, which were the property of the two gentlemen n... ...nocence, when vice, agreeable vice, is the only thing which the readers of romances care to hear? The little horse-boy, who was leading the two black ... ...milian Gustavus Adolphus von Galgenstein, captain of horse and of the Holy Roman Empire” (he lifted here his hat with much gravity, and all the crowd,... ...ratford road, looking as black and dismal as Napoleon gal- loping from the romantic village of Waterloo, he espied, a few score yards onwards, at the ... ... the irruption of Mr. Brock and his companions had subsided. “These are no magistrate’s men: it is but a trick to rob you of your money, John.” “I wil... ...r, alto- gether; for, in truth, very little came of it, and it is not very romantic or striking. But we are bound to stick closely, above all, by the ... ...of Squire Ballance, the neighbouring justice of the peace. When the worthy magistrate asked the crime of which the prisoner had been guilty, the capto...

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...ere, as unfor tunate Men, we were used with great Humanity as well by the Magistrates of the Town, who assign’d us good Quarters, as by particular Me... ...the Veneration of the People to the Clergy, is not only to be found in the Roman, but perhaps among all Religions in the World, even among the most br... ...Way, and that was Religion; for as I had entertain’d some Doubts about the Roman Religion, even while I was abroad, especially in my State of Solitude... ... for me, much less going to settle there, unless I resolv’d to embrace the Roman Catholick Religion, without any Reserve; unless on the other hand, I ...

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...ne would rid him of Arminius by poison: this was the most potent enemy the Romans had, who had defeated them so ignominiously under Varus, and who alo... ...ent in his own house, imprisoned and killed him. Justice required that the Romans should have satisfaction for this offence; but there was a difficult... ... but the profit of the augmentation of the public revenue, that served the Roman Senate for a pretence to the foul conclu- sion I am going to relate, ... ...s, a man’s word and relationship, for the common good and obedience to the magistrate, ’tis certainly sufficient to excuse us, that ’tis a grandeur th... ...at cruel pain they seemed to be at all dismayed. Elsewhere the most sacred magistrate was reverenced and acknowledged by that member and in several ce... ...discreet as to evade this tor- menting and unprofitable knowledge: and the Romans had a custom, when returning from any expedition, to send home befor... ...be drawn in a coach by lions, and a singing wench with him. [Cytheris, the Roman courtezan.—Plutarch’s Life of Antony, c. 3. This, was the same person... ...is own; he owes himself to others: authority is not given in favour of the magistrate, but of the people; a superior is never made so for his own prof... ...height of our great disorders, when there was neither law nor justice, nor magistrate who performed his office, no more than there is now, publish I k...

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...o could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine. You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend. I hav... ...and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind. W... ...unate in being able to secure his services. I heard of him first in rather a romantic manner, from a lady who owes to him the happiness of her life. T... ...favourites was a judgement from heaven to chastise her partiality. She was a Roman Catholic; and I believe her confessor confirmed the idea which she ... ...ne of the others, who, without saying a word to any of the family, went to a magistrate; and, upon their deposition, Justine was apprehended. On being... ...ntal activity of the Grecians, of the wars and wonderful virtue of the early Romans—of their subsequent degenerating—of the decline of that mighty em... ...ccasion. About half a dozen men came forward; and, one being selected by the magistrate, he deposed that he had been out fishing the night before with... ...mist came over my eyes, which obliged me to lean on a chair for support. The magistrate observed me with a keen eye and of course drew an unfavourable... ...e mode of the murder had been described. I was accordingly conducted, by the magistrate and several other persons, to the inn. I could not help being...

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... duty which they owe to them- selves. Joking apart, no account of the most romantic adven- ture could be more mildly improbable than this of the jour-... ...ther. Fortunately, it so happened that Mme. Chardon was nursing the deputy-magistrate’s wife, who had just given the Milauds of Nevers an heir presump... ...ut with a sort of courtesy to which Eve was not accustomed. She saw in the magistrate’s face an expression which, since her marriage, she had seen in ... ...be her enemies—had turned hard, indif- ferent eyes on her; with the deputy-magistrate, therefore, she 62 Eve and David felt at ease, although, in spi... ...cried. “Petit-Claud is carrying out your husband’s instructions,” said the magistrate; “he is anxious to gain time, so his attor- ney says. In my opin... ... the distinction of a prose writer, for to him we also owe the magnificent romance of The Archer of Charles IX. Some day our nephews will be proud to ... ...ellow, a genius. I have read your Archer of Charles IX.; it is more than a romance, it is litera- ture. Only two living men could have written the pre... ...nsolidate the temporal power, our Order upholds the Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church, which is to say, the doctrines which dispose the world at lar... ...hat did I tell you?” said Petit-Claud. “That fellow is not a poet; he is a romance in heaven knows how many chapters.” “Traveling post!” repeated Eve....

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...EMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN THE ANCIENT STATE OF EUROPE, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE............................311 CHAPTER III OF THE RISE AND PRO... ...ER III OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF CITIES AND TOWNS, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE ................................................................. ... and impartially with every sort of in- dustry. Since the down-fall of the Roman empire, the policy of Eu- rope has been more favourable to arts, manu... ...nstrument of commerce among the ancient Spartans, copper among the ancient Romans, and gold and silver among all rich and commercial nations. Those me... ...Timaeus, an ancient historian, that, till the time of Servius Tullius, the Romans had no coined money, but made use of unstamped bars of copper, to pu... ... other side, and never cease to call aloud for the assistance of the civil magistrate, and the rigorous execution of those laws which have been enacte... ...- multuous combinations, which, partly from the interposition of the civil magistrate, partly from the superior steadiness of the masters, partly from... ...ime erected into a commonalty or corporation, with the privilege of having magistrates and a town-council of their own, of making bye-laws for their o... ...m as secure and independent of those enemies as he could. By granting them magistrates of their own, the privilege of making bye-laws for their own go...

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...ngs which she brought home with her to her husband were very grievous. The magistrates would sit on the next Thursday—it was then Friday—and Mr Crawle... ...rvened between the day of her visit to Silverbridge and the sitting of the magistrates. On the Saturday it was necessary that he should prepare his se... ... as much silence as the nature of the work admitted. But by the day of the magistrate’s meeting at Silverbridge, the subject had become common through... ...t will go to a jury, then?’ ‘I do,’ said Lord Lufton. ‘I don’t see how the magistrates can save themselves from committing him. It is one of those cas... ...hat Miss Anne Prettyman was supposed to be specially efficient in teaching Roman history to her pupils, although she was so manifestly ignorant of the... ...thful servant in Christ, ‘T . Barnum’ (Baronum Castrum having been the old Roman name from which the modern Barchester is derived, the bishops of the ... ...vinced that until the world should have been improved by a new infusion of romance, and a stronger feeling of justice, Mr John Walker was right. 127 ... ...rversely cruel as the fate of John Eames would never have yet been told in romance. That was his own idea on the matter as he sat smoking his cigar. I... ...istically speaking—’ ‘Don’t be an ass, Johnny.’ ‘Well then, poetically, or romantically, if you like that bet- ter —I daresay that poetically or roman...

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...a colander, honeycombed with the shadows of the dints, hollowed out like a Roman mask. It set all the laws of anatomy at defiance. Close inspection fa... ... a wealthy old lady, the house wore a look of dignified repose befitting a magistrate’s residence. President Camusot had invested all that he inherite... ...ent of the T ribunal of Mantes, came to Paris, in 1828, to be an examining magistrate. She was, therefore, too much one of the family not to wish, for... ...Indictments in 1834, though, thanks to his past experience as an examining magistrate, he made 31 Balzac himself useful in drafting decrees. These di... ...3 Balzac Mephistopheles is blended with a homely cheerfulness found in the romances of August Lafontaine of pacific memory; but the predominating elem... ...re, albeit the city is the seat of the German Diet. It is not often that a magistrate traces back the stream of wrongdoing and misfortune to the holde... ...ssion in a Frenchified German seemed to Cecile to be in the highest degree romantic; the descendant of the Virlaz was a second Werther in her eyes—whe... ...tians, carved with heavy ornaments, like English plate of the present day; Romans, distinguishable among the others for a certain dash that artists ca... ...air that is noticeable in quarters where human life abounds; in the filthy Roman Ghetto, for instance, with its swarming Jewish population, where ma- ...

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...red to appease him. He demanded that they should send their Doge, or chief magistrate, accompanied by four of their senators, to France, to ask his pa... ..., by putting their officers in a proper line of subordination to the Chief Magistrate, will, as it were, consolidate them into one corps, and thereby ... ...han it is to persuade or compel them to depart. How many conquests did the Romans and others make in the char- acters of allies, and what innovations ... ...ce of their rights. The army under such circumstances may usefully aid the magistrate to suppress a small faction, or an occasional mob, or insurrecti... ...llest to one. The common council had the appointment of all the judges and magistrates of the respective cities. This was certainly the most, delicate... ...able to them in the same capacities. A project of this kind is little less romantic than the monster-taming spirit which is attributed to the fabulous... ...o the danger- ous expedient of introducing the succor of foreign arms. The Romans, to whom the invitation was made, eagerly embraced it. Philip was co... ... ensued to the league. Dissensions broke out among it mem- bers. These the Romans fostered. Callicrates and other popu- lar leaders became mercenary i... ... effectually to nourish discord and 81 The Federalist Papers disorder the Romans had, to the astonishment of those who confided in their sincerity, a...