Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 26.

Let's do it after the high Roman fashion.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Antony and Cleopatra. Act iv. Sc. 15.

I think we do know the sweet Roman hand.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.

There were his young barbarians all at play;

There was their Dacian mother: he, their sire,

Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday!

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 141.

I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2.

Above any Greek or Roman name.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Upon the Death of Lord Hastings. Line 76.

This was the noblest Roman of them all.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act v. Sc. 5.

My voice is still for war.

Gods! can a Roman senate long debate

Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

Joseph Addison (1672-1719): Cato. Act ii. Sc. 1.

In the most high and palmy state of Rome,

A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,

The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead

Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1.

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,

Than such a Roman.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

On the sudden

A Roman thought hath struck him.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Antony and Cleopatra. Act i. Sc. 2.

Love in your hearts as idly burns

As fire in antique Roman urns.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 309.