But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.

They looked at the ruins of the old Roman wall on the lower Via Veneto, then they went to the Farnese Gardens.

Deeply imbued with the old Roman culture, she gave to that son's education a more refined and literary turn than suited the ideas of her Gothic subjects.

Just below Brugg the Reuss and the Limmat join the Aar, while around Brugg are the ruined castle of Habsburg, the old convent of Königsfelden ( with fine painted medieval glass ) and the remains of the Roman settlement of Vindonissa ( Windisch ).

The Castello Vecchio (" old castle "), a ruined citadel, was believed to be Roman but turned out to have Gothic features.

* Senex: ( Latin for " old man ") A henpecked, sardonic Roman senator living in a less fashionable suburb of Rome.

There he lived strictly enclosed in an old abandoned Roman fort for some twenty years.

Anthony went to the Fayyum and confirmed the brethren there in the Christian faith, then returned to his old Roman fort.

He left Alexandria to return to the old Roman fort upon the end of the persecutions.

Its basis appears to be the old Roman Creed.

The luggage wagons, with a great amount of plunder, is said to have remained along the old Roman road, the main route from Poitiers to Bordeaux, to give protection to his weak right side.

The Roman Breviary has undergone several revisions: The most remarkable of these is that by Francis Quignonez, cardinal of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ( 1536 ), which, though not accepted by Rome ( it was approved by Clement VII and Paul III, and permitted as a substitute for the unrevised Breviary, until Pius V in 1568 excluded it as too short and too modern, and issued a reformed edition ( Breviarium Pianum, Pian Breviary ) of the old Breviary ), formed the model for the still more thorough reform made in 1549 by the Church of England, whose daily morning and evening services are but a condensation and simplification of the Breviary offices.

The new Scottish Proprium sanctioned for the Roman Catholic province of St Andrews in 1903 contains many of the old Aberdeen collects and antiphons.

The city provided a defence for the eastern provinces of the old Roman Empire against the barbarian invasions of the 5th century.

One of Claudius's investigators discovered that many old Roman citizens based in the modern city of Trento were not in fact citizens.

He expelled foreign astrologers, and at the same time rehabilitated the old Roman soothsayers ( known as haruspices ) as a replacement.

It was he who, in old age, crowned Louis IV of Bavaria as Holy Roman Emperor in 1328.

In this period, the Colonna started claiming they were descendants of the Julio-Claudian dynasty ( similar spurious claims are common among the old Roman nobility, the Massimo case probably being the best known ).

He named his own pope Antipope Clement III in the old manner of the Holy Roman Emperors.

At first, the old Roman pagan rite was used by Christians, although modified superficially.

February was named after the Latin term februum, which means purification, via the purification ritual Februa held on February 15 ( full moon ) in the old lunar Roman calendar.

Europe had come to expect an end to the Investiture controversy, and was not willing to return to the old days when the Holy Roman Emperor named the pope.

It has also been used to hearken back to the Roman republic, particularly by those who see themselves as modern-day successors to the old republic and / or its ideals.

This recipe is very old in the Iberian Peninsula going back to Roman times.

Bernini himself would not marry until May 1639, at age forty-one, when he wed a twenty-two year old Roman girl, Caterina Tezio, an arranged marriage that bore him eleven children.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

The road leading south along the river was shaded with old trees, and in the moonlight the silvery landscape was like a setting for trolls and wood gods rather than the Hudson River Valley of his boyhood memories.

`` I imagine the old girl hasn't missed us much '', Mark added, his eyes on the road.

And Jarrodsville was more than three miles away, down an old dirt road that the rain had turned into a quagmire.

Best eaten at the famous Ikbal restaurants ( either the old one in the town centre or the big place on the main road ).

These arrivals are evidenced by an older road in Toi, the Ara Metua, which runs around most of Rarotonga, and is believed to be at least 1200 years old.

The old entrance to the park was closed in 1997 when a new entrance was created at the intersection of Highway 20 and Cornet Bay road, improving access into and out of the park.

It attempted to depict the totality of the mid-Victorian social experience in a single image, depicting ' navvies ' digging up a road, Heath Street in Hampstead, London, and disrupting the old social hierarchies as they did so.

From Kurupukari it would run parallel to the old cattle trail to Annai, and from Annai it would follow an already existing road to Lethem.

The word derives from the old Norse " gata ", meaning road or path, and originally referred to the gap in the wall or fence, rather than the barrier which closed it.

The hub of the road network is located at the old airport ( at the intersection of Boulevard Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Autoroute de Delmas ).

The most obvious evidence of mining to the casual visitor to Dartmoor are the remains of the old engine-house at Wheal Betsy which is alongside the A386 road between Tavistock and Okehampton.

Leipzig was a walled city in the Middle Ages and the current " ring " road around the city centre corresponds to the old city walls.

in the 19th-century, the former fortifications gave way to a ring road that encircles the old town centre, from which the old industrial buildings have been excluded.

During the late Middle Ages it was an independent commune with considerable importance owing to its location on the old Via Francigena, the main road between France and Rome, but increasingly Montalcino came under the sway of the larger and more aggressive city of Siena.

This is variously blamed on aggressive driving, insufficient driver training, old and unsafe cars, inferior road design and construction, and a lack of appreciation of the skill and responsibility required to safely operate a motor vehicle.

For example, helping an old lady across the road ( good exterior act ) to impress someone ( bad interior act ) is wrong.

It is now mostly gone ( in part due to the construction of the new circuit ) or converted to a normal public road, but since 2005 a vintage car event has been hosted on the old track layout, including part of the parking area.

It is named after the city of Potsdam, some 25 km to the south west, and marks the point where the old road from Potsdam passed through the city wall of Berlin at the Potsdam Gate.

* Potsdamer Straße, developed out of that old road to Schöneberg and Potsdam, part of the former trading route across Europe, and leading south west.

Between the two ends of the range, the only passes worth mentioning are the Col de la Perche, between the valley of the Têt and the valley of the Segre, the Port d ' Envalira, the highest mountain pass in the Pyrenees and one of the highest points of the European road network, and the Col de Somport or Port de Canfranc, where there were old Roman roads, but apparently, no modern highways.

Aragon, founded in 809 by Aznar Galíndez, grew around Jaca and the high valleys of the Aragon River, protecting the old Roman road.