"For what would have happened if that rabble of shepherds and vagrants, having deserted their own peoples, and under the protection of inviolable sanctuary having possessed themselves of liberty, or at least impunity, had thrown off their fear of kings only to be stirred by the ruffling storms of tribunician demagogues, breeding quarrels with the senators of a city not their own, before ever the pledges of wife and children and love of the very place and soil (an affection of slow growth) had firmly united their aspirations?"
Livy, Ab Urbe Condita Book II, Chapter I
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Starting over
I've neglected this blog for a nearly a year, and the previous posts weren't anything anybody wanted to read (as the site meter would indicate). So I'm deleting all the previous posts and starting anew, in the spirit of the new year 2007, even if it's not so new anymore.
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