The Inglory That Was Rome
The Mystique Of The Manual tells us that Simone Weil "equated the Roman Empire with Nazi Germany and Hitler with Caesar," which comes to mind with this news — Roman Gladiator's Gravestone Describes Fatal Foul.

"The superior man is catholic and no partizan. The mean man is a partizan and not catholic."
(君子周而不比、小人比而不周。) ─ Confucius, The Analects, 2.XIV, translation by James Legge.
Omnes Sancti et Sanctæ Coreæ, orate pro nobis.
2 Comments:
As empire, yes.
But as republic, she was grand, no?
Good point.
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