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Updated: June 26, 2025

Thus poetry and literature made their entrance into Rome along with the sovereignty of the world, or, to use the language of a poet of the age of Cicero: -Poenico bello secundo Musa pennato gradu Intulit se bellicosam Romuli in gentem feram.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book III : From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States

Thus poetry and literature made their entrance into Rome along with the sovereignty of the world, or, to use the language of a poet of the age of Cicero: -Poenico bello secundo Musa pennato gradu Intulit se bellicosam Romuli in gentem feram.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)