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    Classics: Libido dominandi

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    David Potter confirms Augustine’s claim that the foreign wars of Rome were an extension of a lust for domination and honor: Roman “thinking [about the outside world] involved terms such as gloria, the glory that was won in battle, the ability to compel a foreign people to do something. That which was to be preserved was decus, or ‘face,’ fastigium, dignity, or the maiestas, ‘majesty’ of the empire. Foreign peoples who challenged the gloria or decus of Rome suffered from superbia, or arrogance, which led them to do iniuriae, injuries, to Rome, which needed, above all, to be avenged.”


    posted by Peter J. Leithart on Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 11:44 am