Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others. - Tacitus

Thou wast indeed fortunate, Agricola, not only in the splendour of thy life, but in the opportune moment of thy death.

He upbraided Macro, in no obscure and indirect terms, "with forsaking the setting sun and turning to the rising".

The busts of twenty most illustrious families were borne in the procession, with the names of Manlius, Quinctius, and others of equal rank. But Cassius and Brutus outshone them all, from the very fact that their likenesses were not to be seen.