Roman Emperor Quotes

Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the Messiah .

Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!

The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great

Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.

Since by the ordination of God I both am called and am Emperor of the Romans, in nothing but name shall I appear to be ruler if the control of the Roman city be wrested from my hands.

Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.

In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section.

While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius.

I certainly don't see myself as Caligula.

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his amorous passions was never diverted from their lawful objects. The proud titles of Imperial greatness were adorned by the tender names of a faithful husband, an indulgent father; his uncle was raised, by his affectionate esteem, to the rank of a second parent.

They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.

Since I came an adult - for more than 45 years - Marcus Aurelius has been my great idol.

Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Æropus, a Macedonian king, made lanterns; Harcatius, the king of Parthia, was a mole-catcher; and Biantes, the Lydian, filed needles.

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.

Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

I will never give peace to the emperor of Rome, till he had abjured his crucified God, and embraced the worship of the sun.

When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate age, the Grecian purity of taste, of manners and of religion. The emperor's prepossession was increased and justified by the discreet pride of his favourite.