His advice has remained in the English language as the saying, " When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

When Troy was sacked by the Greeks, Aeneas, after being commanded by the gods to flee, gathered a group, collectively known as the Aeneads, who then traveled to Italy and became progenitors of Romans.

When the Romans finally conquered Pannonia in 8 AD, the Boii seem not to have opposed them.

When the Romans and written history arrived in 57 BC, the country was sparsely populated by various tribal groups at the periphery of the empire.

When Augustus founded the Roman Empire, the Mediterranean sea began to be called Mare Nostrum ( Latin: " Our Sea ") by the Romans.

When Carthaginian commander Hannibal Barca fought the Romans, he recruited several Gaulish mercenaries who fought on his side at Cannae.

When the Romans encountered the Greek geographers they used Iberia poetically and spoke of the Iberi.

When the Romans destroyed the Antigonid dynasty of Macedon in 167 BC and divided it into four separate states ( merides ), it was Amphipolis and not Philippi that became the capital of the eastern Macedonian state.

When they finally made it to Sardinia, the Romans were aware of their intentions and had reinforced the unpopular garrison under Titus Manlius Torquatus to 20, 000 infantry and 1, 200 cavalry.

When the Romans destroyed the water pipes, king Decebalus flees and commits suicide.

When they described the gods of Celtic and Germanic tribes, rather than considering them separate deities, the Romans interpreted them as local manifestations or aspects of their own gods, a cultural trait called the interpretatio Romana.

When in 1376 Charles IV asserted Wenceslaus ' election as King of the Romans by the prince-electors, two of seven votes, those of Brandenburg and Bohemia, were held by the emperor and his son themselves.

When Caesar learns of their plan to cross over a Roman province, a great conflict arises pitting the Romans against the Helvetii.

When the battle between the Germans and the Romans finally commences, there is fierce hand-to-hand combat.

When the Roman troops begin to cross back over to the continent, they are attacked by the Morini, who are then defeated by the Romans.

When the Romans came to the Netherlands c. 50 BC, the area around was called Oppidium Arnoldi Villa.

When Antiochus refuses, the Battle of Magnesia is fought near Magnesia ad Sipylum, on the plains of Lydia in Anatolia, between the Romans, led by the consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio and his brother, Scipio Africanus, with their ally Eumenes II of Pergamum, and the army of Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire.

When the Emperor Hadrian threatened to rebuild Jerusalem as a pagan city dedicated to Jupiter, in 132, Aelia Capitolina, some of the leading sages of the Sanhedrin supported a rebellion led by Simon Bar Kosiba ( later known as Bar Kokhba ), who established a short-lived independent state that was conquered by the Romans in 135.

When the Romans settled there, they absorbed the cult of Quirinus into their early belief system — previous to direct Greek influence — and by the end of the first century BC Quirinus was considered to be the deified Romulus.

When the Romans took control of Egypt, the Roman legal system which existed throughout the Roman Empire was imposed in Egypt.

When the city was taken only a few days later the Romans assembled their prisoners and executing the senior officers before them ( whipped by the rods and beheaded by the axe of the fasces, a standard punishment for treason ), let the rest go with a stern warning.

When the Romans decided to withdraw from Scotland, the line of the Stanegate became the new frontier and it became necessary to provide forts at half-day marching intervals.

When the Romans named governments of other countries they used populus in the singular or plural, such as populī Prīscōrum Latīnōrum, " the governments of the Old Latins ".

When the Romans departed the land was acquired by an Anglo-Saxon called Aca.

When the Carthaginian cavalry attacked the Romans in the rear, and the African flanking echelons had assailed them on their right and left, the advance of the Roman infantry was brought to an abrupt halt.

When the Heruli overran Greece and captured Athens ( 269 ), Dexippus showed great personal courage and revived the spirit of patriotism among his fellow-countrymen.

When the North Vietnamese Army overran South Vietnam in 1975, Air America helicopters participated in Operation Frequent Wind evacuating both US civilians and South Vietnamese people associated with the regime from Saigon.

When Morgoth's armies attacked and overran the city, Maeglin fought with Tuor on the walls, and Tuor threw him to his death.

When civil war broke out in Central America, he fought in various battles, but was killed when a Nicaraguan army overran the city of Tegucigalpa.

When Union troops under Sherman overran much of Georgia in 1864, Brown called for an end to the war.

When the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 overran all of China's maritime access, its Chinese Air Company was merged with China Airways into the China National Aviation Company ( CNAC ), with Pan Am owning 45 % of the operation and the government the remaining 55 %.

:" When the German and Scythian nations overran the western provinces of the Roman empire, the confusions which followed so great a revolution lasted for several centuries.

When in 1798 the French overran Switzerland and instituted the Helvetic Republic, both municipalities came to the short-lived canton of Baden.

When Pichegru in 1795 overran Holland, De Winter returned with the French army to his native country.

When the Khmer Rouge overran Cambodia, he was forced to return to Switzerland where he continued his work at the Zurich Children's Hospital.

According to Josephus: " When he had seized upon two villages, which were in the very midst of Idumea, Betaris, and Caphartobas, he slew above ten thousand of the people, and carried into captivity above a thousand, and drove away the rest of the multitude, and placed no small part of his own forces in them, who overran and laid waste the whole mountainous country.

When forces of the Golden Horde overran the Chobanid realm and captured Tabriz in 1357, few lamented the loss of power by the Chupanids.

When the Seljuk Turks overran Persia, they adopted for official and literary use the Persian language — which meanwhile had borrowed many Arabic words.

When the invaders overran Beijing in 1937, the Japanese ordered Stuart to fly the puppet regime flag at the Yenching University campus and offer his personal " thanks " to the Japanese militia for the institution's " liberation.

When Arabs and Turks overran the eastern Roman Empire, they adopted and developed this feature in their baths or hammams.

When the Byzantines under John I Tzimisces overran much of northern Mesopotamia in 971, he did not even return to Baghdad.