Author: Sophia McDougall

Cites

• Bible (1)
  • IN: Romanitas (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Once, when we were on our way to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl who was possessed by an oracular spirit, and brought large fortunes to her owners by telling fortunes.
    FROM: Acts, 16.16, (100), Bible, NULL
• Virgil (1)
  • IN: Romanitas (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Romulus will rule, and build the walls of Mars And he will give his people his own name: Romans. On them I lay no limits. I set them free from distance and from time, I have given them an Empire without end.
    FROM: Aeneid. 1, (-24), Poem, NULL
• Tr. James Darmesteter (1)
  • IN: Rome Burning (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: How is it that a mortal can wish for another mortal the annihilation of his body, or of his soul, or death for his children or for his cattle, if he has sense enough to know that he himself is mortal? For he is pitiless to himself, and none of the others shall pity him.
    FROM: Avesta, Fragments 48-49, (1893), Religious Text, France