the death masks of one’s ancestors, with a list of their achievements, were deliberately placed in the most conspicuous part of the house...

Can we imagine how distinguished Menenius Agrippa must have been if the Senate and plebs chose him as the man to make peace between them?...

I have often heard that Quintus Maximus, Publius Scipio, and other eminent men of our country were accustomed to declare that their...